Becoming a people together
Gordon Lathrop roots his case for in-person worship in scripture and Lutheran tradition.
Post-evangelical healing
Charles Marsh writes beautifully about the anxiety instilled by his childhood faith—and the therapy it took to overcome it.
What does the cross mean for people with disabilities?
David McLachlan proposes a participatory atonement in which God engages creation’s contingency and vulnerability.
Catholic acts of mercy during the AIDS crisis
Michael O’Loughlin paints a vivid portrait of the complex, compassionate, and sometimes daring ways individual Catholics responded.
Deconstructing the Republican Jesus
Biblical scholar Tony Keddie shows how the conservative movement enlisted the Bible to help its cause.
Robert P. Jones says it’s past time to reckon with Christianity’s role in White supremacy
White Too Long envisions the hope that could follow recognition and repentance.
Seeing disability through a lens of wonder
Brian Brock’s book is both academic and deeply personal.
A palliative care physician writes about the mystery of faith
Sunita Puri’s memoir models the kind of compassion and wisdom she brings to her patients.
Elaine Pagels’s lifelong search for the sacred
Pagels vividly recounts her spiritual experiences. But she won’t let herself be bound by any tradition.
The Christian virtues and the art of dying
9 values that can shape the end of life in a cruciform way
Martin Luther in all his complexity
Lyndal Roper's biography is a masterpiece of nuance and balance.
The Nature of Healing, by Eric J. Cassell
Eric Cassell reminds us that people experience sickness in profoundly individual ways. Physicians should learn to heal patients even when they cannot cure their diseases.