Historian of Native America Gregory D. Smithers’s "Reclaiming Two-Spirits" tackles the colonization of sexuality and gender in Indigenous American communities.... Read More

"The Lighthouse" is a satisfying supernatural novel in which human spirits and resilience win out over loss and despair. In Christopher Parker’s supernatural novel The... Read More

What happens in Jerusalem is as much about family as it is about the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Lis Harris’s cultural and political history "In Jerusalem" combines deft... Read More

If you are this, you can’t be that: It’s a ubiquitous assumption in our oversimplified, 140-character-driven world. In When One Religion Isn’t Enough, Duane R. Bidwell... Read More

On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers and delivered a powerful address that proved to be his last. In the excellent... Read More

To understand the impact of poverty wages on the world’s workers, history professor Annelise Orleck traveled around the United States and the world, conducting 140 interviews,... Read More

Exemplifying the best of the memoir genre, Brandeis tells a story that is both intimately specific and intensely relatable. In "The Art of Misdiagnosis", Gayle Brandeis strives... Read More

An appealing voice parses through history to demonstrate how the author eventually returned to Islam. How to Be a Muslim: An American Story details Haroon Moghul’s journey... Read More

Aptly resonant, this story of a family’s struggle against segregation is both artful and important. An intriguing account of the historical complexity of race relations,... Read More

In this engaging and often entertaining tale, a professor travels the world to find out how religion impacts the environment. Though the book establishes the author’s... Read More

"Rescuing Jesus" highlights and spurs on change that is vital not only to the evangelical church but also to the country. Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer... Read More

Adam’s linchpin role in debates on original sin provides Christians with an ideal framework in which to explore matters of science and truth. Saving the Original Sinner: How... Read More