Recently, my wife and I watched the much-discussed Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. It features a parade of Silicon Valley insiders making confessions...
TV and film
Read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020) Caste. For most Americans, the word seems foreign. This is because it...
An HBO Max three-part docuseries, Expecting Amy, and the final season of the award-winning and oft-Emmy-nominated Schitt’s Creek (a Canadian Broadcasting...
There is a lot of blood. Blood on the concrete next to the car. Blood on the chunk of concrete used to bludgeon his head. Blood on the cloth covering his body...
Read Missionaries By Phil Klay (Penguin Press, 2020) Before turning to full-time writing, Phil Klay put in more than a year’s service with the U.S. Marine...
On December 9, 1965, 49 percent of the televisions in America tuned in to CBS for a new Christmas program created by Bill Melendez, Lee Mendelson, and Charles...
Read American Harvest By Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Graywolf Press, 2020) “All discussions of food and agriculture begin with the land,” writes Marie Mutsuki...
Read Blessed Are the Nones By Stina Kielsmeier-Cook (InterVarsity Press, 2020) More than 40 percent of marriages are interfaith, according to a recent Pew...
Read Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God By Kaitlin B. Curtice (Brazos Press, 2020) Kaitlin B. Curtice’s new book, Native: Identity, Belonging...
Read The Book of Rosy By Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo (HarperOne, 2020) The Book of Rosy is a tale of two mothers. When Rosayra Pablo Cruz...
