Cover to Cover
Books editor Elizabeth Palmer sorts through her stacks
Multigenerational rage, holy listening, and the unveiling of another way
A conversation between Parker Palmer, Stephen Lewis, Matthew Wesley Williams, and Dori Baker about the book Another Way
Advent is coming. Are you ready?
These six new Advent devotionals may help.
Accompanying immigrants as they negotiate an unjust system
"It’s easy to think of the border as some remote, far-off place, but the truth is that there are detention centers in nearly every state."
Our world just might be saved by black women
But is it fair to expect it?
Dismantling anti-Jewish readings of the Passion story
Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine reminds us, was a Jew.
Working within neighborhoods to end mass incarceration
"By building social capacity, communities can respond to their own issues rather than rely on responses from the criminal justice system."
What's new this Advent?
Four of the best new resources for individuals, congregations, and families
Boys will be like the boys they read about
Books can’t singlehandedly destroy toxic masculinity. But they can chip away at it.
The beauty of Anya Silver's faith
Anya saw the world in colors.
How a tweet turned Eric Metaxas into my brother
It’s all fun and games until your political enemy calls you “dear sister in Christ.”
Third group
Trump's rotten fruit and my own
Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.
James Cone's theology is easy to like and hard to live
If Jesus is black, he's calling us to do a lot more than affirm the color of his skin.
Poetry and transience
National Poetry Month is over, but there's plenty of good poetry to get us through the next 11 months.
The work of reconstruction, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.
Of the many absurdities around race and hatred that still exist in our culture, Trump may be the least of them.
Crisis of faith
First Erin White fell in love with Christ. Then she fell in love with Chris.
The unadorned self, living forward, and a great lake of beer
What I found when I looked up today’s date in four daily devotional books