Take & Read: New Testament
Five new books about Luke and Acts
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Miriam Toews explores religious trauma through the voice of a nine-year-old
Swiv isn’t an unreliable narrator, but she’s living in a world that feels unreliable.
Cooking my way through Africa’s east coast
Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen offer a rare thing: an English-language cookbook of African food that isn’t from Ethiopia.
Kate Bowler finds good news in hard truths
No Cure for Being Human offers a model for negotiating suffering with honesty.
When Mennonites were settlers
John Eicher’s history exposes European Mennonite complicity in Native dispossession.
An evangelical Christian argument for reparations
Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson want to talk about theft.
Literature in the wild
Nick Ripatrazone invites us into the wilderness with some of his favorite writers.
Elle Dowd’s firsthand account of the Ferguson uprising
A memoir of a White moderate’s repentance
Rescuing patriotism from nationalism
Constitutional patriotism, Steven Smith argues, is both ethical and necessary.
Sinéad O’Connor knows exactly who she is
Rememberings is the story of a pop star, protest singer, and prophet.
How Amazon became the behemoth it was designed to be
Alec MacGillis’s history of the tech giant is long-form journalism at its best.
Sludge, sludge everywhere
Cass Sunstein explores the things that waste our precious time.
Do millennials bring something new to leadership?
Three authors, one Jewish, one Muslim, and one Christian, place their hope firmly in a new generation—again.
What if forgiveness were unthinkable?
Paul Kahn’s memoir of his family is a cautionary mirror for our cultural moment.
A male scholar looks at the Bible’s women
According to James McGrath, unless Jesus was able to learn from others, he wasn’t truly human.
