How mainline Protestants got involved in urban renewal
Mark Wild complicates the conventional account of postwar white flight.
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Christian Wiman’s poems of love and doubt
Massive struggle, intense suffering, and abundant joy
Is social justice the new reformation?
Anna Madsen’s theological call for taking a stand
An anthropologist explores the dangers of being pregnant while black
Using case studies, Dána-Ain Davis shows how medical racism hurts black women.
A precise, devastating portrayal of white wokeness
Kiley Reid’s novel about race, class, and good intentions that miss the point
How one youth leader stopped being a chief counselor of fun and discovered something better.
John Henry Newman’s impact
Eamon Duffy’s short biography of the first English saint canonized since the Reformation
Are humans terrible?
Maybe not, say new books by Richard Wrangham and Nicholas Christakis.
Dorothy Sayers and her equally fascinating friends
How they engaged culture in troubling times
What if Christianity never existed?
Walter Scheidel’s tour de force of world history is based almost entirely on counterfactuals.
N. T. Wright insists that Jesus is the starting point of natural theology
Wright’s rereading of scripture is brilliant. Too bad he’s so disparaging of other viewpoints.
Are we idol worshipers?
Stephen Fowl’s fresh approach to the study of idolatry
What makes an American home?
A literary look at the walls that protect us—and keep us captive
Brian Doyle’s rivers of words
A new collection of Doyle’s nonfiction overflows with wonder.
Learning to face the doctrine of discovery
I wish I’d had Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah’s book when I was in college.
