In praise of unruly children in church
Sometimes they’re the only sign of life amid our solemn boringness.
Please, tell me what it says in the original Greek
Why are clergy so embarrassed to know things their job requires them to know?
Marilynne Robinson’s new Gilead novel makes Jack Boughton make sense
Everything in Jack is a marvel.
Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s history of the manly godly man
How American evangelicalism baptized male aggression
The deep roots of America’s enchantment with capitalism
Eugene McCarraher explains how money became our object of worship.
Doing theology with the assumption that queer people belong
Linn Marie Tonstad summarizes a far more interesting conversation about sex and gender than the one I grew up with.
Dazzling essays from flyover country
There are two conditions Meghan O'Gieblyn can't escape: Christianity and Midwesternness.
When illness undoes us
Deanna Thompson's book about cancer takes us where we don't want to go but must.
A deep history of women’s cultural criticism
Michelle Dean's book isn't exactly a group biography. But it is a highly entertaining feast of quotes, anecdotes, and analysis.
Kamila Shamsie’s novel is filled with perfect coincidences
Of all the coffee joints frequented by all the British citizens-of-Pakistani-descent in all of Amherst, Massachusetts, she walks into his?
The rise and fall of Emmanuel Carrère’s faith
The Kingdom is a mess, but it refuses to be wholly dismissed.
Where are the dead?
Leonard DeLorenzo helps us envision where our loved ones have gone and how we relate to them.
A novel for frightening times
Han Kang’s main theme is the dignity and the cowardice that atrocity brings forth from people—often the same person.
The startling triumph of The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead has created a world as compelling—and as intolerable—as our own.