Innocent on death row
Two memoirs by men who endured decades of criminal injustice before being exonerated
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Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Pragmatic guidance for the task of healing the world
Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill challenge churches to embrace nine practices of active faith.
What makes local communities thrive?
James and Deborah Fallows traveled around the U.S. to find out.
Is evangelicalism at war with science?
It depends which evangelicals you’re asking.
On patrol at the border
When Francisco Cantú took a job as a border patrol agent, he didn’t consider the cost to his humanity.
Harrison Scott Key’s dreams
Is the desire for greatness a temptation or a vocation?
Do Christians owe special respect to state authority?
Government enjoys no special immunity from moral judgment, argues Jason Brennan.
From the psych hospital to the jail
Two new books provide a devastating vision of America’s mental health crisis.
Dwelling together in scripture’s room
How can preachers and listeners develop a practice of lingering with the text?
The black activist women of 100 years ago
Amy Jacques Garvey, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, and the “back to Africa” movement
Identifying white fragility
Real talk about racism requires getting past knee-jerk reactions.
A novel about centuries of Jewish-Christian relations
James Carroll tells a story of faith, reason, and freedom.
Bridging the gulf between conservative Christian colleges and the arts
Does immersion in secular music and literature strengthen faith? Does it destroy it?
When illness undoes us
Deanna Thompson's book about cancer takes us where we don't want to go but must.
All identities are intersectional
Identity markers are necessary, argues Kwame Anthony Appiah. They're also inadequate.
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