Can the religious left be as effective in Washington as it’s been on the streets?
Jack Jenkins’s book is informative and persuasive, if not exactly unbiased.
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Michael Cohen’s tell-all about Trump is mostly about himself
The moral lessons of his humiliation and imprisonment seem fairly limited.
The artist at the end of the world
Scott Russell Sanders’s essays balance ecological despair with the promise of human creativity.
Are we trapped by the way others see us?
Brit Bennett’s novel explores racial passing, gender transition, and family trauma.
When your partner loses faith
After Stina Kielsmeier-Cook’s husband became a none, she reached out to some neighborhood nuns.
Dr. King’s voice in verse
Joseph Ross’s poems are an elegy for the civil rights movement’s martyrs.
The law in our lives
David Opderbeck’s book about theology, the law, and how we engage with both
Louise Erdrich’s novel gives names, faces, words, and life to the Chippewa Turtle Mountain Band
A story of survival in the face of termination
Prominent evangelical scholars are, once again, disavowing Trump
They’re brave to do so. Do they go far enough?
I wish Francis Su had been my third-grade math teacher
Su’s book is about math and human flourishing. It’s also about how to be a teacher.
How Heather Cox Richardson looks to the past for hope
The “Letters from an American” author provides historical context for today’s threats to democracy.
The treasure of the Psalms
The psalter’s wisdom, illuminated from five perspectives
A desire to return home
Aharon Appelfeld’s novel of wartime survival among Jewish partisans in Nazi Europe
Messianic protest against the School of the Americas
In Kyle Lambelet’s view, SOA Watch demonstrates the virtues of a messianic politics.
Pregnancy is undeniably beautiful and bizarre
Both Agnes Howard and Brittany Bergman encourage reflection on a transformational experience.
