How dying churches abuse pastors
Gene Fowler examines why traumatized congregations so often attack their leaders.
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Nice and normal in the heartland
Phil Christman explores the idea of the Midwest.
Reason and revelation meet—even in Aquinas
Denys Turner’s essays bridge the gaps that often frustrate us when we read medieval theology.
A memoir of hardship and gratitude in Appalachia
Cassie Chambers tells family stories and considers the history of the people of Owsley County, Kentucky.
The misión integral of Protestant liberation theologians
Samuel Escobar, René Padilla, and other Latin American evangelicals—and how their activism was overshadowed
A guide to religious education during the climate crisis
For Jennifer Ayres, it’s crucial to name our ecological identity and responsibility.
A novel about climate change’s impact on all of us
In Gun Island, Amitav Ghosh practices what he preached in The Great Derangement.
A city dweller follows the harvest
Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s spiritual and cultural pilgrimage through the heart of farm country
Notes from an organ transplant surgeon
Joshua Mezrich weaves professional insight with personal stories.
How mainline Protestants got involved in urban renewal
Mark Wild complicates the conventional account of postwar white flight.
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.
