Features
The surprising freedom of being a guest preacher
When the wildfires came to my house, I remembered the garden of Eden
Ruth Bader Ginsburg saw the biblical Deborah as a role model
Books
Danusha Laméris’s new book is filled with small kindnesses
A luminous poetry collection marked by joy and sorrow, humor and truth.
Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five books that take readers beyond Anglophone perspectives
Eddie Glaude revisits James Baldwin’s America
Begin Again’s call to repentance is, like Baldwin’s own language, substantially Christian.
Take & Read: New Testament
Has Paul been unfairly judged?
Yaa Gyasi’s beautiful novel embraces faith that changes and grows
Transcendent Kingdom explores an immigrant neuroscientist’s complicated relationship with evangelical Christianity.
Books for pandemic reading
Nine writers tell us about a book they’ve read recently that’s helped them reframe what it means to be a person of faith and a reader right now.
Take & Read: American religious history
Four new books that explore Black Americans’ religious witness
Lyz Lenz’s midrash on pregnancy and motherhood
Lenz blends storytelling and critique to explore the role of myths in defining women’s bodies.
Willie Jennings’s plea to create a new kind of theologian
After Whiteness is urgent reading for any institution that purports to care about God and race.
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five books that introduce new voices to the conversation
Marilynne Robinson’s new Gilead novel makes Jack Boughton make sense
Everything in Jack is a marvel.
Douglas Ottati’s liberal piety
The theologian starts by recognizing that we know enough to live fully in response to God’s grace.
N. T. Wright and Walter Brueggemann look to the Bible for wisdom during the pandemic
They both resist easy answers to the problem of suffering.
Michael Cohen’s tell-all about Trump is mostly about himself
The moral lessons of his humiliation and imprisonment seem fairly limited.
Departments
The struggle to live in unity when everything’s divided
Islamic loyalty is declining in Iran
Stokely Carmichael and Michelle Obama, by Panhandle Slim
Police shouldn’t be the first responders for mental health crises
Loving your neighbor starts with the people on your block
News
Amy Coney Barrett on faith, politics, precedent
Louisville faith leaders after Breonna Taylor decision: ‘Our cries have fallen on deaf ears’
Episcopal priest backs up whistle-blower allegations at ICE facility
In battleground states, Catholics are a pivotal swing vote
Mennonite Central Committee celebrates 100 years of service
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Baptist leader Charles Stanley steps down from Atlanta church
