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José David Rodríguez provides a decolonial history of Lutheranism in the world’s oldest colony.

John Ganz explores the gritty political and cultural trends that erupted in the early 1990s and set the stage for the present.

Brenda Salter McNeil draws on her community organizing experience to find fresh lessons from the biblical rebuilder.

If consciousness is universal and the universe is fine-tuned for life, Philip Goff argues, then there must be a cosmic purpose.

I’m excited about the direction of AAPI children’s fiction.

Patricia Ventura and Edward Chan interrogate the ongoing enabling relationship between White supremacy and neoliberalism.

Sandra Glahn shows how the Greek goddess’s prestige influenced the portrayal of women in Ephesians and 1 Timothy.

Marty Folsom does what no previous scholar has done: make Church Dogmatics available to all.

Greg Garrett provides a road map for the terrain of the prophetic writer’s work and thought.

If they had been the ones presiding over Jesus’ trial, says biblical scholar Israel Knohl, there wouldn’t have been a crucifixion.

Amy Butler’s memoir is a story of relentless striving and continued failures. In other words, it’s a story of the church.

Antonia Hylton digs into the history of a Maryland asylum that forced its Black patients to build their own facilities.

W. H. Auden’s most distinguished heir wrote poems that bear witness to history with great depth of feeling.

Instead, the Cuban-American writer aims to turn her readers’ gaze outward.

Like Felix Manz himself, Jason Landsel’s graphic novel about him refuses to compromise its integrity to find an audience.

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