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...
TV and film
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...
What if way back in 1947 Hollywood had produced films by Black screenwriters featuring gay actors for studios run by women? Would the world look different...
Read The Moment of TendernessBy Madeleine L’Engle (Grand Central Publishing, 2020) “The world had changed all of a sudden and it wasn’t hers anymore.” Little...
Read The Least of These By Carla Swafford Works (Eerdmans, 2020) “The apostle Paul does not have a reputation for caring about ‘the least of these,’ ”...
Behind the scenes in competitive ice skating, all is not sequins and sweetness in Netflix’s one-season wonder, Spinning Out. The series is compelling for...
