Reinhold Niebuhr’s The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense offers a still relevant perspective on the idealistic and cynical tendencies in US democracy. By Bradley Shingleton
A fresh round of reactionary groups are appropriating Friedrich Nietzsche to promote virulent new strains of the “superhuman.” By Nicholas E. Low
We need to approach earth-mourning as a necessary spiritual practice that reckons with the disorienting power of grief and the potential for meaningful change. By Dorothy Dean
Austin Reed’s antebellum memoir The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict subverts notions of incarceration as spiritually regenerative. By Klaus C. Yoder
Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping explores the human response to the transient. By C. E. Morgan
Italian philosopher and political theorist Giorgio Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory, The Church and the Kingdom, and The Omnibus Homo Sacer, and Simon Critchley’s The Faith of the Faithless offer resources for exploring the connections between temporality, political community, and ordained ministry. By Charles M. Stang
Since the 2016 election, teaching Andrew Delbanco’s The Real American Dream and Catherine L. Albanese’s A Republic of Mind and Spirit has become more relevant and constructive, as this religious studies professor has come to view the rise of the spiritual but not religious as a story of hope. By Darryl Caterine
A review of four books on Islamic reform in contemporary Africa. By Ousmane Kane
An appreciation of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society. A Translation of Fei Xiaotong’s Xiangtu Zhongguo. By Anna Sun
Poetry ‘Every Moment Can Be a Poem’ A Q&A with Kythe Heller National Poetry Month April 2017 Share on X (Twitter) Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email Wendy McDowell, senior editor of the Bulletin,...
Michael Shermer’s The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Reason and Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. By Bradley Shingleton
Bearing witness and fixing blame in Russell Banks’s novel The Sweet Hereafter. By Matthew Potts
Graham Green chronicled the thin line between virtue and vice. By Chris Herlinger
Certain individuals have a remarkable and unforeseen impact on our lives and stay with us, as teachers and guides, in our thinking and in our writing. By Kathryn Dodgson
Three books about Muslim travelers. By Emran Qureshi
Ethics and the many dimensions of vulnerability interweave in Watchmen. By Jonathan Schofer
Caroline Walker Bynum’s Holy Feast and Holy Fast. By R. Marie Griffith
Recent books on contemporary politics and religion. By Todd Shy
Arthur O. Lovejoy’s The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. By Christopher Queen
Czelaw Milosz’s Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition. By Will Joyner
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