December 22, 2016 / Perspective
Zach Czaia examines Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me from the perspective of a Catholic high school English teacher.
Zach Czaia
December 22, 2016 / Perspective
December 22, 2016 / Perspective
Perspective
The Perspective section offers reviews of selected publications and informed opinions on current events or issues.
Taylor C. Ross
October 11, 2016 / Perspective
October 11, 2016 / Perspective
Taylor Ross considers how the recent unmasking of Elena Ferrante reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of language and literature.
Luann Anderson
June 16, 2016 / Perspective
June 16, 2016 / Perspective
In reviewing Doug Merlino’s Beast, Luann Anderson journeys into the misunderstood world of mixed martial arts (MMA) and the athletes behind the sport.
Karen V. Guth
November 12, 2015 / Perspective
November 12, 2015 / Perspective
In their collaborative search for “a new political imagination for today’s church,” Kingdom Politics authors Kristopher Norris and Sam Speers put into practice their own form of ecclesial witness.
Chris Green
October 29, 2015 / Perspective
October 29, 2015 / Perspective
In the end, the strangeness and opulence of her prose leaves the impression that Sonderegger is drunk with delight at the thought of God’s nature. And who can fault her for that?
Cabe Matthews
October 12, 2015 / Perspective
October 12, 2015 / Perspective
Stephen Long’s Saving Karl Barth demonstrates how theological friendship might begin to heal a five-hundred-year division in the church.
Zachary Thomas Settle
October 1, 2015 / Perspective
October 1, 2015 / Perspective
Reggie Williams’s Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus is a timely work for both Bonhoeffer studies and theological engagement in general.
Scott Schomburg
September 17, 2015 / Perspective
September 17, 2015 / Perspective
Marilynne Robinson’s novels have become almost synonymous with loneliness, but solitude here remains entangled with a less acknowledged trope—an enveloping and dazzling darkness.
Hollis Phelps
September 2, 2015 / Perspective
September 2, 2015 / Perspective
This essay draws on Judith Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure to discuss the relationship between queerness and children.