Books
Tara Stringfellow’s fictional family brings a real city to life
Like Memphis, Memphis is gritty—filled with danger, tragedy, and humor.
Jonathan Dyck’s queer Mennonite graphic novel
Shelterbelts is a quiet ode to rural life that honors what is good and confronts what is not.
Aurelia Dávila Pratt’s paths to healing
Her powerful debut resonates deeply with my lifelong labor to honor my name and my voice.
The gender identity of God—and Jesus
Amy Peeler offers a great resource for Christians who have struggled to understand God’s call to women.
Why are we so polarized?
An ethicist, a pastor, and two podcasters weigh in.
What Christian nationalism is and what to do about it
Pamela Cooper-White details best practices for difficult conversations that privilege listening, reflexivity, curiosity, and care.
We do not read alone
Brad East offers a rigorous argument for the ecclesial context of scripture.
“When are we?” asks James K. A. Smith
The philosopher diagnoses the temporal tone deafness of Christians, our inability to attend to time.
The Word made grotesque
If we want our sermons to resemble real life, says Charles Campbell, we might take a hint from carnival.
When nature is its own protagonist
Amitav Ghosh’s book sings the ancestral story of nutmeg.
Is Christian celebrity harmful to the church?
Yes, says Katelyn Beaty, who defines celebrity as “fame’s shinier, slightly obnoxious cousin.”
Can we be reconciled to God without being reconciled to one another?
Jonathan Augustine starts where Barth left off, moving from salvific reconciliation to social reconciliation.
Women after incarceration
Anthropologist Jorja Leap bears witness to the struggles of women reentering society through programs designed for men.
Diane Glancy’s search for home
Glancy’s spirit is shaped as much by her exile from her tribe as by her ties to it.
Epistles of hope for our time
Randal Jelks and Shaka Senghor both write with realism but not fatalism.
A reminder of what’s worth saving
Elizabeth Weinberg’s call to climate action highlights the interconnection of all things.
A fresh translation of Nelly Sachs’s later poems
For Sachs, flight is multivalent: her flight from the Nazis, any refugee’s flight from oppression, God’s flight from God.