May 2020

Our staff offer quick reviews of new titles in bioethics, cultural criticism, and ecology.

There’s no conflict between a deacon’s role as herald and servant. Both are necessary.

Deeply symbolic and theological language about both the priesthood and the diaconate sometimes ends up stifling creative thinking about their futures.

Mary Ward’s trajectory proves an axiom in church history: it is often those who suffer humbly and patiently from the church’s contradictions who end up redeeming it.

The earth is all too heavy, / spaded black and new

Judge not. Or judge // that part of love which, when adrenaline / and worry boil off, still wants some remnant, relic, / to itself

I go to the window. For a moment the world / only my backyard, such a gold as I have seen / behind the heads of saints in medieval paintings,

New theological books include titles on the Talmud, Shariah law, the Latino Christ, and slavery among Christians.