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Paul Simon Finds the Lord

Timothy Larsen   |  May 31, 2023

Seven Psalms is his 15th solo studio album

REVIEW: Tangled Webs

Heather P. Venable   |  May 25, 2023

The deceptions that followed Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament have raised the level of threat

REVIEW: Purity Culture and Toxic Masculinity

Rachel Darnall   |  May 18, 2023

It’s time to rethink the virtue of chastity

REVIEW: Still More Reasons to Be Grateful for Immigrants

Agnes Howard   |  May 11, 2023

Parents who come from someplace else have a lot to teach everyone else

REVIEW: So Many Angles

Elizabeth Stice   |  May 9, 2023

In Our America, Ken Burns keeps the pictures still—and just as piercing

REVIEW: Beginning with Birth

Dixie Dillon Lane   |  May 3, 2023

What if natality—rather than mortality—had the last word?

ROUNDTABLE: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

Ellen Koneck, Natalie Carnes, Leah Libresco Sargeant and Agnes Howard   |  May 2, 2023

Jennifer Banks’ book opens pathways and unveils vistas

REVIEW: A Focused Gaze on Words

Michael Jimenez   |  April 26, 2023

Suspicion of a text is easy. Trusting is hard.

REVIEW: Ignorance Is Bliss?

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft   |  April 25, 2023

Choose what you know wisely

REVIEW: The Free Speech Conundrum

Jon D. Schaff   |  April 12, 2023

If neutrality regarding speech is impossible, how do we settle our disputes about it?

REVIEW: The Middle Children of History

Christina Bieber Lake   |  April 3, 2023

Do you think ChatGPT can write a novel? Read this book.

What I am reading: a review of Rick Kennedy’s Winds of Santa Ana

Nadya Williams   |  March 31, 2023

Winds of Santa Ana: Pilgrim Stories of the California Bight by Rick Kennedy. Wipf and Stock, 2022. 206 pp., $25.00. It is a time-tested truism of the academic profession that the best adventuring is of the armchair variety. But every […]

REVIEW: The Genesis of Gender

Andrea Turpin   |  March 28, 2023

In Abigail Favale’s view, our wholeness as individuals and communities is at stake

REVIEW: Faith and Transcendence in Fiction

Jacob Lupfer   |  March 21, 2023

The World Cannot Give shows us Gen Z through a decidedly religious lens

REVIEW: A Man for the Age of Tech Tycoons

Carolynn Roncaglia   |  March 15, 2023

The life of Crassus is worth remembering—especially on the ides of March

REVIEW: Evangelicals + Celebrity = ?

D. G. Hart   |  March 9, 2023

Katelyn Beaty’s book makes this much clear: It’s a codependent love

REVIEW: “Nana Really Wants Me to Do This”

M. Elizabeth Carter   |  February 28, 2023

In Seventy Times Seven, mercy, pain, and justice meet in unanticipated ways

REVIEW: Decency Doesn’t Stop at the Border

Christopher Gehrz   |  February 24, 2023

Timely reflections for the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine 

REVIEW: What Would Adam Smith Do?

Daniel K. Williams   |  February 21, 2023

There may be no satisfying answer to this question, says Glory Liu

REVIEW: Smashing Statues

Evan Kutzler   |  February 14, 2023

Unintended consequences threaten ongoing harm

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