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Read interviews with David Bazan, Scott Russell Sanders, Terry Tempest Williams, Alice McDermott, and more...
The Superhero and His People
Santiago Ramos unpacks the questions of ethics and identity posed by recent superhero films.
Recovering Evangelical: Reflections of an Erstwhile Christ Addict
Todd Shy shares memories from his college days when he faced the embedded drama, anguish, and zeal of his evangelical roots.
Bread
Lauren Winner unpacks the culinary imagery of the God who both “is the meal and...also provides the meal.”
Discipline of the Notebook
Bonnie Friedman urges readers to follow her life-giving antidote of keeping a notebook around at all times.
Read essays on Kurt Vonnegut the Christ-loving atheist, Nick Cave’s enchanted world, and more...
Doxologies and Admonitions
Psalm by Carol Ann Davis
Epistles: Poems by Mark Jarman
Gomer’s Song by Kwame Dawes
Review by Hannah Faith Notess
Writing in Invisible Ink
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
The Man within My Head by Pico Iyer
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir by Meir Shalev
Review by Lauren F. Winner
The Reclusive Novel
Community, Tradition, and Loneliness
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
by Dave Eggers
High as the Horses’ Bridles by Scott Cheshire
Review by Bryan Bliss
The Thread that Weaves Life Together
Crossing Boundaries with the Charis Exhibition
By Rachel Hostetter Smith
The Mark of Cain
Figure and Landscape in the Work of Enrique Martínez Celaya
Essay by Daniel A. Siedell
Special Topics
Why Believe in God?
We put it to a group of writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians: At a time in human history when religious faith is called not only out-of-date but malignant, why do you believe?
The Word-Soaked World: Troubling the Lexicon of Art & Faith
This collection of short essays demonstrates the push-pull relationship believing artists have with words: We are in pursuit of a God who is revealed through the poetry of the oldest Psalms, but whose true name is impossible to pronounce.
Editorials
“Not since O’Connor’s Mystery and Manners has there been such bracing insight on the pile-up where art and faith collide.”
—Annie Dillard
The Landscape of Art & Faith
What is the contemporary literary climate like for writers of faith? How will they fare in the future?
Film
Road films. Horror films. Films on marriage. Divine comedies. We love movies. Do you? We’ve got you covered.
