Arts & Culture
Dark fantasy novels that scream theology
I didn’t expect so much sacramental imagination in Tamsyn Muir’s series about lesbian necromancers in space.
The priesthood of all chatbots?
I’m sure there are good uses for AI in our churches. Prayer and preaching aren’t among them.
Sola natura
Richard Higgins offers a remarkably full account of Henry David Thoreau’s ever-evolving faith.
A diary of small apocalypses
In Charlotte Wood’s novel, an atheist is driven by climate despair to an isolated convent, where she grapples with layers of grief.
A history of muscular Christianity in the US
Paul Putz traces the influence of evangelicalism on sports, from the birth of the YMCA to Colin Kaepernick.
Science is finally catching up with Teilhard de Chardin
Frank and Mary Frost, the filmmakers behind a recent PBS documentary about the Jesuit paleontologist, have long seen him as a true visionary.
Modern love
At first, Materialists seems like a brutal reckoning with our metric-obsessed age. But director Celine Song has bigger themes in mind.