Books
Preaching in the promised land
After the Great Migration, some black preachers addressed the issues their white social-gospel counterparts avoided.
Wisdom from Augustine, Calvin, and Bonhoeffer on theological education
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Marcella Althaus-Reid recounts her dreams from the afterlife
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American historians on grit, revolutions, and the topsy-turviness of our era
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A Deuteronomist redactor meets a recorder of Islamic texts
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The line between here and there
Two novels explore what happens when wars persist and borders are permeable.
Gregory Ellison II, Michelle Alexander, and Matthew Desmond share a red vinyl booth
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Take & read: Old Testament
An annotated list of the best new titles
Mother's Day picks
Looking for a gift for a mother in your life? Here are some possibilities.
Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin, and Octavia Butler imagine a new future
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Take & read: Theology
An annotated list of the best new titles
Laughing at what’s not funny
Like Jason Micheli, I have incurable cancer. His book helped me find humor in it.
Take & read: Ethics
An annotated list of the best new titles
Dorothy Sayers, Charles Williams, and W. H. Auden discuss their unconventional love lives
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Emily Dickinson and Søren Kierkegaard joke about considering the lilies
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The beauty of Charles Spurgeon
My temptation to spurn the evangelical preacher slipped away when I opened this volume.
Pathologically moral
In her memoir, comedian Maggie Rowe lays bare a struggle with excessive guilt that rivals Martin Luther’s.
What we need from scientists
It’s hard enough to distinguish fact from fiction. Then there’s the matter of interpretation.
The isolation of Wallace Stevens
A new biography reveals the poet’s devotion to his vocation. It also reveals his loneliness.