One of the more intriguing questions about the new Flannery O’Connor film Wildcat is how it came about in the first place. Directed and co-written by actor...
Books and literature
In the Shadow of Freedom By Alessandra Harris (Orbis, 2024) Alessandra Harris offers an extensively researched work on the Christian world’s role in the...
Purpose By Samuel T. Wilkinson (Pegasus Books, 2024) Yale psychiatrist Samuel T. Wilkinson’s Purpose belongs to a small but highly touted group of recent...
Judaism Is About Love by Shai Held (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024) Some years ago, I took classes in Judaism. One day, the rabbi talked about differences...
There’s probably no more “post-Christian” place on Earth than contemporary Scandinavia. According to the Pew Foundation, only 7 percent of Norwegians say they...
Jessica Hooten Wilson was raised to believe that “Christians should dwell on the good and the beautiful,” she writes in her introduction to Flannery...
In 1964, artist Norman Rockwell, best known for his photorealistic depictions of everyday American life, painted the now-iconic picture of 6-year-old Ruby...
Zero at the Bone By Christian Wiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) Despair hits differently at different times, and sometimes what hits isn’t despair, but a...
bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision by Nadra Nittle (Fortress Press, 2023) Writer, scholar, and public intellectual bell hooks is known as a feminist, not a...
(R)evolutionary Hope By Kathleen Bonnette (Cascade Books, 2023) In his Confessions, St. Augustine famously asks, “What do I love when I love my God?” It seems...
