Features
My bookshelf at the end
Latino churches are social service hubs
Divine love in Hosea 11
An anti-Christian lawsuit
My evangelical feminist friend Letha
A holy fool with chocolate
Ten ways Christians can criticize Israel that aren’t antisemitic
Voices
Melissa Florer-Bixler
My son the PK said no to baptism
For now, anyway. After our discernment together, I consider this a success.
Jonathan Tran
One person’s self-made hell
Recently I attended the trial of a woman accused of killing a college student in a hit and run.
Alejandra Oliva
Movement of the soul
Justin Peck’s choreography takes the language of ballet and turns it into something more.
Samuel Wells
How might God bless a divided America?
On a recent trip to the US, I went to church—and found myself pondering three liturgical moments.
Books
A boldly nonpropositional systematic theology
Kevin Hector presents theology as itself a practice of faith.
Where are the children in liberation theologies?
Child advocate R. L. Stollar seeks to help people read the Bible in ways that protect and honor children.
Monsters and their beautiful work
Claire Dederer thinks through what it means to consume art produced by people who have said or done terrible things.
A world with no boundaries
Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories of love and defiance escape the plane of realism.
Trending topics: Exvangelical women’s memoirs
Five new memoirs by women who left evangelicalism
A refugee’s fragmented memory
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s fractured and stirring memoir is haunted by war—and religion.
Centering Chloe and decentering Paul
Womanist scholar Mitzi Smith offers resources for understanding the reception of 1 Corinthians among Black readers.
A novel driven by kindness
There are many reasons to adore James McBride’s latest book.
Connecting the dots
Heather Cox Richardson guides us through serial attempts to overturn the liberal consensus in America.
Mitri Raheb takes on Christian Zionists (even the liberal ones)
The Palestinian theologian challenges Christians to examine their feelings about Israel—and to ask what their faith has to do with these feelings.
Trending topics: Israel and Jewish identity
Five new books exploring the identity of Israel and what it means to be Jewish
Marilynne Robinson goes deep on Genesis
Her new book is a single essay of 230 pages that probes beautifully into the mind and heart of God.
Departments
Border encounters
The very real sham marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Lectionary
May 9, Ascension (Luke 24:44–53)
May 5, Easter 6
(1 John 5:1–6; John 15:9–17)
(1 John 5:1–6; John 15:9–17)