Book Reviews

New book urges white Christians to assess their 'abuses of faith'

Jul 1, 2020

Book review: The book takes down a number of the personalities, institutions and structures of white Christian nationalism that led to President Donald Trump's election and who pose a continued serious threat to multiethnic democracy in the United States.

'The Ethics of Encounter' makes Catholic social teaching more accessible

by Kelly Stewart

Jun 24, 2020

Book Review: The author argues that Catholic social teaching offers invaluable resources for navigating contemporary social problems and building what he calls a "culture of encounter" in a country beset by individualism, social division and unjust hierarchy.

A couple walks through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. (Wikimedia Commons)

Author Susan Neiman examines Germany, Dixie and 'comparative redemption'

by Jason Berry

Jun 10, 2020

Book review: Navigating between Germany's reckoning with Nazism and the reactionary grip of Southern myth, Learning From the Germans tells the stories of people facing a historical memory they want to change.

The time is right to read Jesse Jackson's speeches

by Bill Tammeus

Jun 3, 2020

Book Review: Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has become an important prophetic voice calling his nation — our nation — to do the right thing on behalf of the very people Jesus told his followers to care for: the poor, the downtrodden, the sick, the oppressed.

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New book urges white Christians to assess their 'abuses of faith'

'The Ethics of Encounter' makes Catholic social teaching more accessible

Author Susan Neiman examines Germany, Dixie and 'comparative redemption'

The time is right to read Jesse Jackson's speeches

History and tragedy linger in 'Ghosts of the Missing'

Rambling and warmly written memoir is part of spring books roundup

Memoir of a millennial steelworker

Women of Italian Renaissance health care come out of shadows in new book

Jenkins' book shows people of faith led great US progressive achievements

Ecological theology meets theological response to suffering in Edwards' book

US Christian nationalism is far from Christianity, authors argue

Schenk's biography of Mercy Sr. Theresa Kane a detailed account of visionary's path

'Unbelievers' is an engaging historical treatment of doubt, disbelief

On Flannery O'Connor's birthday, two books to celebrate her life, work

'Voyage of Mercy' tells resonant story of Americans aiding starving Ireland

Maggie Paxson converted from war reporting to being a peace correspondent

New book meditates on Emily Dickinson's acute awareness of natural world

GOP apostate aims to school Democrats on beating the devil on the ballot

Book on Civil War era activists has parallels to present moment

Book review: Researcher interviews struggling pornography users

Books on impeachment may both trouble and reassure President Trump

Richard Holbrooke biography is fraught, but enlightening

Meticulous scholarly book on women's role in early church has a few sketchy claims

New book on Charleston massacre depicts agonizing struggle to move on

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