literature
Don’t go into a relationship — or institution — thinking you can change them
By Karen Swallow Prior — November 20, 2023
(RNS) — I thought for a long time I could help the church change. How foolish. How prideful.
A good pastor is hard to find
By Karen Swallow Prior — October 31, 2023
(RNS) — In art at least, the odds of a man of the cloth turning out to be a good guy are slim.
When they came for the books …
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 10, 2023
(RNS) — Florida lately has become more known for book bannings than its sunlight.
Tolkien fans hope to turn his house into a ‘Rivendell’ for writers and filmmakers
By Claire Giangravé — January 22, 2021
(RNS) — Fantasy enthusiasts want to turn the house of the Catholic author in Oxford, England, into a meeting place.
Through sci-fi and fantasy, Muslim women authors are building new worlds
By Aysha Khan — July 16, 2020
In the past few years, Muslim women have quietly taken the speculative fiction publishing industry by storm.
Toni Morrison and the holiness of the living, breathing flesh
By Emilie M. Townes — August 8, 2019
(RNS) — What Morrison taught us is that the holy is both radically immanent and transcendent and in too much of our religious and theological thought we focus on the transcendent — at our peril.
Millennials, moral relativism and Iris Murdoch
By Tara Isabella Burton — July 19, 2019
(RNS) — The celebrated British novelist Iris Murdoch, who would have turned 100 this week, anticipated young Americans' attempt to find goodness without God.
Thirty years on, why ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial
By Myriam Renaud — September 24, 2018
(The Conversation) — Author Salman Rushdie's book goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs and challenges some of the most sensitive tenets.
Philip Roth, acclaimed and controversial novelist who probed Jewish themes, dies at 85
By Kimberly Winston — May 23, 2018
(RNS) — Though Roth was an avowed atheist, Judaism was a perennial theme in much of his work.
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.
Philip Roth and his Jewish people
By Lauren Markoe — October 10, 2016
(RNS) Philip Roth has not 'come home' to the Jewish community. He never really left, writes Rabbi A. James Rudin.
Umberto Eco, author of monastery thriller ‘The Name of the Rose,’ has died
By Reuters — February 20, 2016
The Italian professor wrote 20 books but was best known for his theology-laden detective story set in a 14th Century monastery.
How to access the spiritual power of poetry–even if you “just don’t get it”
By Jonathan Merritt — February 26, 2015
New York Times columnist David Brooks called Christian Wiman's "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer" the "best modern book on belief." Here Wiman shares how people of faith can begin accessing the spiritual power of poetry even if, at first, they "just don't get it."
Q&A: Marilynne Robinson on guns, gay marriage and Calvinism
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — May 9, 2014
(RNS) In an interview, Pultizer-prize winning writer Marilynne Robinson explained why she thinks Christians are fearful, why she loves John Calvin and whether she’ll join Twitter.
How the Christian story is the greatest ever told
By Jonathan Merritt — March 4, 2014
Author and priest Dwight Longenecker argues that the Christian story is more than a myth and the greatest story ever told.
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