The voice of God in Malamud, O’Connor, Updike, and Morrison
Peter C. Brown’s project is urgent and personal.
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Diana Butler Bass’s love letter to Jesus
Freeing Jesus is not the kind of book we expect from someone with a PhD.
The beautiful faith of Rachel Held Evans
Like all of her work, her posthumous book is warm, wise, and intimate.
The world sees Black girls as dangerous. Morris shows them that they are scholars.
The German sociologist’s theory of “resonance” offers an alternative: deceleration.
Elegies for Jacki
Poet Peter Cooley logs the year following his wife’s death with courage and brutal honesty.
The bold visions of the grandfather of liberation theology
Understanding the biblical Herods
Bruce Chilton moves Herod the Great and Herod Antipas from backdrop to center stage.
Danté Stewart’s letter to America
Shoutin’ in the Fire is a testimony to Black liberation and love.
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers explore a theology of restorative solidarity
How can a people paralyzed by facing its history move forward?
Judaism for the World is the work of a master
Readers will relish the collected thoughts of Arthur Green, a historian and practitioner at the top of his powers.
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.
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
