Features
Bonhoeffer’s warning
Sacred stacks
Barth’s refusal
The empire’s uniforms in the world’s oldest colony
José Saramago’s clarifying unbelief
The pastor with no robe
It’s not too late for climate action
Annie Dillard’s unrestrained hallelujah
Wendell Berry’s vision of a sacred world
Voices
Benjamin J. Dueholm
The Leonard Cohen 10k challenge
I decided to listen to his whole discography while running. Even as slowly as I run, it would take a lot of kilometers to do it.
Stephanie Perdew
Chasing shinies in a secular age
Is Pokémon GO a late-capitalist venture in re-enchanting the world?
Phil Christman
The politics of cutting people off
Political breakups aren’t some new low in American life. They’re an understandable response to stakes that have always been life and death.
Julian DeShazier
Rebirth pangs
Where something has died, something else must now be born. It’s not going to be fun.
Kelly Brown Douglas
A politics of grievance in the vineyard
The language may change, but Matthew 20’s underlying question remains: Who belongs, and who does not?
Books
Birds, blood, and scripture’s silenced women
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s debut poetry collection is a raw and confessional reckoning with divine encounter.
Trending topics: Our cats, ourselves
Seven books about how domestic house cats help us to see ourselves more clearly
A war dog’s odyssey
Paul Yoon’s novel of a military dog making his way home through the wreckage is quietly theological.
Reading the Bible as if trans lives depended on it
A new book of scholarly essays shows that transgender experience is woven through the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and early Christian writing.
The settlers didn’t just seize land—they remade religion
Tisa Wenger traces the ways colonial power transformed Native spiritual worlds while reshaping American Christianity itself.
Trending topics: Hunger horror
Five horror novels about people wracked by ravenous, insatiable hunger—and one bloodthirsty sentient plant
The holy resilience of Gisèle Pelicot
Pelicot doesn’t believe in God, but her memoir of surviving decades of her husband’s abuse testifies to the dignity of the human soul.
Sarah Ruden vs. millennia of antiabortion men
The classicist goes on an energetic romp through the long history of what she sees as propaganda intended to control women.
Rapture theology at Ruby Ridge
Chris Jennings explores an often overlooked element of Randy and Vicki Weaver’s extremist beliefs.
Faith formed in correspondence
In their letters to each other, poet Christian Wiman and theologian Miroslav Volf test the language of belief.
Trending topics: Black women writers
Six new biographies of Black women whose writing has changed history
Makoto Fujimura sees God beckoning through art
The esteemed visual artist makes a poetic case for art as encounter with the Divine.
A solution to evangelicalism’s PR problem?
Bonnie Kristian’s new book aims to unmonster the evangelical brand.
Departments
Are both parties to blame?
Upside-down medicine
