Tracing the traditions of English church music
Andrew Gant's lively book tells a history of sacred song.
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Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Laurent Binet's latest novel is at once a lecture, a detective story, and an exploration of the limits of fiction.
Marilynne Robinson's vision for democracy
Critics are correct that Robinson doesn't offer an alternative to the Christian Right. But she never claimed to.
The personal is political—and universal—for Carter Heyward
Heyward was one of the first women priests. But her particular experiences aren't the heart of her memoir.
Who was Joseph Oppenheimer, and why was he killed?
Yair Mintzker doesn't know. He's more interested in why other historians keep trying to write a 19th-century novel about the 18th-century case.
Jesus wants us to be likable—but more importantly, he wants us to love.
Are Wendell Berry's Port William stories about racism?
According to Joseph Wiebe, Berry's vision of rural life starts with his reckoning with Kentucky, the Shawnee, and black slavery.
Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria
A travel writer's visit to the borderlands of her childhood
How new is the new Christian Zionism?
There have been many Zionisms over the years. Only one has imagined an eventual end of Judaism.
I was invited to an interfaith solidarity service. Instead I spent the day reading Congressman John Lewis's graphic novel trilogy about the civil rights movement.
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