Books

Are the people of 21st-century Israel the chosen ones of Genesis to whom Yahweh promised the land in eternal covenant? Walter Brueggemann gives a nuanced answer.

Scott Dannemiller narrates his family's year of simpler living. By the end, he acknowledges that "stuff" is not bad.

Amy Kittelstrom examines the overlapping ideas, personalities, and relationships of seven figures associated with what she calls the American Reformation.

Brian McLaren, Sara Miles, Chris Wiman, and others make their selections.

In two books on Afghanistan, Anand Gopal and Carlotta Gall each point to the absurdity of America's longest war.

When you read children’s literature you expect to smile at the quirky characters fumbling to figure out their growing independence. You might expect to cry as you watch characters face the pain of growing up. You don’t expect to be confronted by current events like a refugee crisis—and inspired to imagine the kind of society we could be even in the face of terror and fear.

Balancing biography and quantitative research, Robert Putnam paints a sobering picture of the state of the American dream.

In Terry Eagleton's compelling narrative, three plotlines run concurrently: a parade of ideas from the Enlightenment to the present, a sustained argument about the role of culture, and a burlesque apologetic for Christianity.