Books In Review: Marilynne Robinson’s new Gilead novel makes Jack Boughton make sense Everything in Jack is a marvel. by Philip Christman October 7, 2020
Books In Review: Examining whiteness through “reparative writing” Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage. by Amy Frykholm January 16, 2020
Books In Review: Literary faith from Dostoevsky to Marilynne Robinson Poetry and fiction grant us glimpses of God. by Jason Byassee July 11, 2019
Interview Faith, imagination, and the glory of ordinary life Marilynne Robinson and Rowan Williams in conversation March 25, 2019
Books In Review: Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, cranky nonfiction Robinson's essays are sometimes tedious. Yet they provide glimpses of the capacious faith undergirding her novels. by Amy Plantinga Pauw May 10, 2018
Critical Essay How do novelists write about faith in a culture that's moving past it? Oddly, the less people know about something the harder it is to tell them about it. by Francis Spufford October 2, 2017
Books In Review: Marilynne Robinson's vision for democracy Critics are correct that Robinson doesn't offer an alternative to the Christian Right. But she never claimed to. by Benjamin J. Dueholm August 29, 2017
Books In Review: Haunting particularities To meet others as God meets us—prickly and imprecise and difficult though we may sometimes be—is a kind of grace. by Rachel Marie Stone April 24, 2016
Editor's Desk Books that linger One blessing of being retired from ministry is that I'm reading more books that are not directly related to that work. by John M. Buchanan April 24, 2015
Books In Review: The preacher’s wife In a crucial scene of Marilynne Robinson’s new novel, Lila spends the morning thinking, has lunch, then thinks some more. Why isn’t this boring? by Amy Frykholm December 1, 2014
Editor's Desk Serious faith When I was a child, I read only baseball box scores. More recently, when Marilynne Robinson has a new book I immediately order it. by John M. Buchanan September 21, 2012