Books & Culture

According to the great 20th-century rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, there are two types of ignorance: one dull, lazy, and uninquisitive, the other...

The Widening of God’s Mercy Sexuality within the Biblical Story By Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays Yale, 288 pages, $28 When announced earlier this year, this...

Wounded I Sing From Advent to Christmas with George Herbert By Richard Harries SPCK, 144 pages, $14.99 Each year around Michaelmas I begin building my Advent/Christmas to-do list,...

Nicked By M.T. Anderson Pantheon, 240 pages, $28 Nicked is a great-hearted, mischievous novel. The story, the characters, the theological exploration nicked my heart straightaway. M.T. Anderson deftly weaves...

This is an autobiographical book that shares the remarkable life and memories of this extraordinary theologian.

Bartholomew writes in a consistent register that drives home his care for the well-being of all parts of the global community in a common family.

What makes Baptizing America a distinctive contribution is the authors’ assertion that Christian nationalism is not limited to white evangelicals and Pentecostals, or to recent decades.

Michael Hopkins provides an extended practical commentary on the rite of Holy Baptism in the Book of Common Prayer.

A Catholic German philosopher who lived from 1904 to 1997, Josef Pieper shaped theological luminaries like Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar.

Deadpool learns what it may mean to be “Marvel Jesus.”

In this clearly written book, T.L. Holtzen explains why the complicated debates about the doctrine of justification before and after the Reformation still matter today.

Transforming Friendship Investing in the Next Generation Lessons from John Stott and Others By John Wyatt IVP, 176 pages, $13.99 John Wyatt’s book is not only timely, but it...

Rowan Williams reflects on early Eastern monastics’ teaching about the principal interior obstacles to spiritual growth.

Salvador Dalí stated his intention of creating, with a camera’s accuracy, the dreamscape of the unconscious mind.

Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane introduce non-Anglican evangelicals to a solid, stately liturgy with a Reformation edge.

Christopher Webster’s presentation of important Classical achievements such as St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury (George Steuart, 1790-92) is novel and enlightening.

Passions of the Soul By Rowan Williams Bloomsbury Continuum, 121 + xxxiv pages, $15 At the heart of this slender volume is a series of retreat addresses...

We begin with Bede, who for Peter Ackroyd marks the beginning of English faith.

This book is a user manual to the International Version of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer published by InterVarsity Press in 2021, edited by Bray and Keane. Once that initial confusion is cleared up, the book’s intention becomes quite clear: it introduces non-Anglican evangelicals discovering liturgy for the first time to a venerable and time-tested expression of Christian worship, a solid, stately liturgy with a Reformation edge. 

Karen Stiller focuses on several words — fruit, body, money, hospitality, humility, beauty, church, remembering, and sorrow — to explain how holiness might become real in our lives.