He was among the first to ask, What is religion for a people birthed in the cradle of chattel slavery?
“I was a child who loved to read. But I didn’t see a lot of characters that looked like me.”
What it has it must freely give away.
How do you see the face we cannot see?
TPS is a short-term solution to an enduring problem rooted in centuries of Haitian history.
Lying in bed and listening, I heard devotion. And creativity. And mystery.
Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, is in turmoil.
The prophet Isaiah sings an eschatological melody.
The story of two grieving and economically insecure women is the hinge of the entire covenant history.
The beautiful faith of Rachel Held Evans
Like all of her work, her posthumous book is warm, wise, and intimate.
Elegies for Jacki
Poet Peter Cooley logs the year following his wife’s death with courage and brutal honesty.
The German sociologist’s theory of “resonance” offers an alternative: deceleration.
The world sees Black girls as dangerous. Morris shows them that they are scholars.
The bold visions of the grandfather of liberation theology
Understanding the biblical Herods
Bruce Chilton moves Herod the Great and Herod Antipas from backdrop to center stage.
Danté Stewart’s letter to America
Shoutin’ in the Fire is a testimony to Black liberation and love.
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers explore a theology of restorative solidarity
How can a people paralyzed by facing its history move forward?
Judaism for the World is the work of a master
Readers will relish the collected thoughts of Arthur Green, a historian and practitioner at the top of his powers.
Karl Barth’s affair with Charlotte von Kirschbaum wasn’t the only major conflict behind his theology
Christiane Tietz explores them all in the first full-length biography since Eberhard Busch’s in 1976.
Take & Read: New Testament
Five new books about Luke and Acts
Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five new books about the lives and faith of Christians around the world
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five new books about the practice of ministry after our recent calamities
Take & Read: American religious history
Five new books about myths and narratives that shape religion in the United States
Miriam Toews explores religious trauma through the voice of a nine-year-old
Swiv isn’t an unreliable narrator, but she’s living in a world that feels unreliable.
Kate Bowler finds good news in hard truths
No Cure for Being Human offers a model for negotiating suffering with honesty.
Cooking my way through Africa’s east coast
Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen offer a rare thing: an English-language cookbook of African food that isn’t from Ethiopia.
