Features
God’s first worst enemy
A theology of ghosts
Horror movie mom
The wisdom of folk horror
The monsters we fear
Voices
Debie Thomas
What is worship for?
Surely God isn’t a narcissist who demands our attention.
Brian Bantum
Can dead things live again?
When the widow in Luke 7 sees her son revived, she isn’t thinking about biology.
Samuel Wells
How we can and can’t help
When my household took in some Ukrainian refugees, we had no idea how their story would end.
Heidi Neumark
My retirement to-do list
Several times a day I need to tell myself: I am not busy. I am not in a hurry.
Yolanda Pierce
A poet’s truth at the graveside
At the interment, the holy words I needed to hear weren’t from the Bible.
Books
A story of water and faith
Abraham Verghese’s new novel tells an epic tale of a family of Thomas Christians in modern India.
Take & Read: Global Christianity
New books in global Christianity
Seeing Dante with Botticelli’s eyes
Joseph Luzzi tells the rich, entertaining story of the Renaissance artist’s renderings of a quintessentially medieval text.
Grace without conquest
Art historian Matthew Milliner has written a groundbreaking history of a beloved icon’s role in imperial Christianity’s collapse.
Marjorie Maddox’s capacious poetry
She can (and will) do anything with this English language she so clearly loves.
Take & Read: Practical theology
New books in practical theology
Inside America’s teaching crisis
Journalist Alexandra Robbins profiles three public school teachers for a year—and gets a glimpse into why they’re so exhausted.
Taking aim at market fundamentalism
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway tell the story of US economic history in a way that obscures as much as it reveals.
Resisting as a way of life
For Kaitlin Curtice, resistance is no mere buzzword—it’s a mighty calling.
Liberation theology’s public witness
Raúl Zegarra’s history is deeply researched, clearly written, and unparalleled in its attention to theory.
Take & Read: New Testament
New books about the New Testament
Migration through a child’s eyes
Javier Zamora’s memoir chronicles the harrowing solo journey he made from El Salvador to the US at age nine.
Listening to—and translating—the voices of asylum seekers
In Alejandra Oliva’s new memoir, she describes how her body becomes an archive of migrants’ stories.
The complicated women of mainline Protestantism
Margaret Bendroth tells the stories of mid-20th century women who fought patriarchy from within the church.
Take & Read: American religious history
New books in American religious history
An unlettered theologian
Nancy Koester’s biography captures the remarkable ministry of Sojourner Truth, who could not read or write.
The genealogy of selfhood
From the Renaissance to Kim Kardashian, Tara Isabella Burton tells a story of limitless, ruthless self-creation.
Russell Moore speaks truth to his community
The Christianity Today editor and former Southern Baptist leader is gravely concerned about the soul of US evangelicalism.
Departments
Eyes of the heart
Hlafira Shcherbak’s
One Can’t Catch My
Soul (top) and People in
Dark Times (bottom)
One Can’t Catch My
Soul (top) and People in
Dark Times (bottom)
The racist scientism of our past
