Karl Barth’s affair with Charlotte von Kirschbaum wasn’t the only major conflict behind his theology
Christiane Tietz explores them all in the first full-length biography since Eberhard Busch’s in 1976.
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Take & Read: American religious history
Five new books about myths and narratives that shape religion in the United States
Take & Read: New Testament
Five new books about Luke and Acts
Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five new books about the lives and faith of Christians around the world
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five new books about the practice of ministry after our recent calamities
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.
Kate Bowler finds good news in hard truths
No Cure for Being Human offers a model for negotiating suffering with honesty.
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.
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.
