Books
Stories from a glacier-shaped landscape
If you’re new to Rick Bass’s edgy, glorious, and often brutal settings, this collection is a perfect place to start.
Why existentialism still matters
Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus have something to say about living authentically.
Possibilities, not prescriptions
Writing may not cure cancer, but it helps with the side effects.
The pains of being present
Jonathan Safran Foer asks what it really means to say, Here I am.
Can war be beautiful?
Fiction and photographs offer nuanced depictions of conflict.
What (some) Trump supporters were thinking—and feeling
A Berkeley academic empathizes with antigovernment Louisianans.
While we wait
It's Advent. What are we waiting for?
Poverty's lifelong damage
Decades worth of data have proven that poverty shortens lives. Will anyone respond?
Saint or devil incarnate?
Empress Theodora is mainly known through the writings of a man who hated her. But there's more to her story.
Agrarian agape
Norman Wirzba views theology and ecology through 1 John 4:8, "Whoever does not love does not know God."
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