Take and Read: Ethics
Five new books about ethics in today’s world
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Take & Read: Theology
Four new books that are shaping theological conversations
The (toxic) masculinity of Martin Luther
Some readers will find Lyndal Roper’s new book unsettling. That might be a good thing.
Poetry that continues the rich literary tradition of angels and offers a new, illuminating perspective
Take & Read: Old Testament
Four new books about biblical texts and their reception
How a small group of activists took down the mining company destroying a Salvadoran watershed
This time, David beat Goliath.
Meritocracy’s trail of humiliation
Michael Sandel considers some alternatives.
The Kindest Lie is a story about race and much more
In Nancy Johnson’s debut novel, a family secret draws a successful Black woman home to small-town Indiana.
Why did ISIS film its destruction of ancient Assyrian artifacts in the Mosul Museum?
Aaron Tugendhaft says all acts of image-breaking are also acts of image-making.
Do we still need institutions?
Yes, says Yuval Levin. But only if they serve a formative function.
Why the death penalty came back
And why it might be abolished
Donna Haskins defeats the devil
Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject.
Lies about the Old Testament
Brent Strawn aims to debunk mistruths that come from biblical illiteracy and anti-Semitism.
How fighting for human rights can lead to idolatry
Rights are good, argues theological ethicist Nigel Biggar, but they are not the only good things.
Who was Henrietta Mears?
A new biography of the woman who shaped the men who shaped modern evangelicalism
