books
Austin Channing Brown: White people are ‘exhausting’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 9, 2018
(RNS) — Austin Channing Brown, author of 'I'm Still Here,' talked to Religion News Service about how the church is missing out when it doesn't listen to black voices, how awkward even progressive spaces can be and how white people can be less exhausting.
Spring books: The renewal edition
By Kimberly Winston — April 4, 2018
(RNS) — Here are eight new books — and one bonus track — where religion and spirituality are themes.
Martin Luther King Jr., by the book
By Kimberly Winston — March 29, 2018
(RNS) — Ten books to add depth and understanding to the April 4 anniversary of King's assassination in 1968.
N.T. Wright on the Apostle Paul’s sudden popularity
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 28, 2018
(RNS) — The author of the new book 'Paul: A Biography,' calls the apostle 'one of the great intellectual, cultural, spiritual thinkers of the whole world.'
‘Rethinking Incarceration’ author on justice, race and the fact Jesus was incarcerated
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 14, 2018
(RNS) — 'The church has really failed to be present with Jesus behind bars, and because we’ve failed to go be present with Jesus behind bars, our faith has been impoverished,' said Dominique DuBois Gilliard.
American evangelicalism is experiencing an identity crisis
By Delta Systems — February 19, 2018
The champion among contenders for a “crisis” of experience and identity these years is American evangelicalism, which was born from the crises of the eighteenth century, and has been part of the Protestant package ever since.
Bart Ehrman’s latest: How Christianity took over the Western world
By Yonat Shimron — February 9, 2018
(RNS) — In 'The Triumph of Christianity,' the New Testament scholar tries to answer a simple question: How did 20 Jesus followers come to convert most of the Western world in the space of 300 years?
3 new books analyze Trump’s faith and his faithful followers
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 8, 2018
(RNS) — He may not go to church much, but that doesn't mean there isn't plenty to write about the president and religion.
Winter books: The getaway edition
By Kimberly Winston — January 23, 2018
(RNS) — Here are eight recently published books that deal with religion and spirituality in plot, theme or subject matter — without proselytizing.
Everything you didn’t know about Christmas
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 14, 2017
(RNS) — 'Anything you think you know about Christmas is wrong,' according to Judith Flanders. The historian is aiming to dispel some of those myths and misunderstandings in her new book, 'Christmas: A Biography.'
Winter books: The ‘Me! Me! Memoir’ edition
By Kimberly Winston — December 5, 2017
(RNS) — Here are 10 memoirs that blend the spiritual or religious with politics, mental health, death and dying, marriage, motherhood, divorce, academia and founding a business.
Kaitlin Curtice talks about ‘everyday glory’ and her Native American heritage
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 22, 2017
(RNS) — The popular 29-year-old worship leader has just published her first book, 'Glory Happening: Finding the Divine in Everyday Places.'
Almost four decades after Jonestown, an author looks back to look forward
By Kimberly Winston — November 17, 2017
(RNS) — A madman, a church, many people dead. It's not 2017 and Sutherland Springs. It's nearly 40 years since the November day in 1978 when the Rev. Jim Jones led more than 908 people to their deaths — some by suicide, some by murder. Jeff Guinn, author of 'The Road to Jonestown,' connects the dots.
Study up: A Reformation anniversary reading list
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 10, 2017
(RNS) — Martin Luther reportedly said: 'There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.' Here are 10 notable ones about Luther and the Reformation he sparked, as Protestants celebrate its 500th anniversary.
Fall religion reading: Heavy-duty edition
By Kimberly Winston — October 4, 2017
(RNS) Get serious with this list of 10 new or recently released books with religion (or no religion) between the covers.
