"The Gospel of Fury" presents itself as an angelic dispatch for a troubled world. Ignatius Benjamin Fury’s religious treatise "The Gospel of Fury" purports to be the work of an angel sent from heaven with a message for Earth. Made up... Read More

"Women Who Knew Jesus" is a biblical critical text with a self-help element that focuses on the faith and courage of the women around Jesus. Episcopal priest Bonnie Ring’s provocative religious text "Women Who Knew Jesus" concerns... Read More

Evangelical pastor Caleb E. Campbell’s "Disarming Leviathan" is an earnest text that works to understand the phenomenon of rising Christian nationalism in the United States. Following the upheavals of 2020 and 2021, including the... Read More

Episcopal priests Elizabeth Felicetti and Samantha Vincent-Alexander’s authentic, atypical devotional "Irreverent Prayers" includes petitions for permission to be “pissed off” and to be rescued from the “platitudes of... Read More

Awing over Jerusalem as “the place of all places,” Bret Lott’s memoir "Gather the Olives" relishes in time spent among Israelis and Palestinians. Lott, who loves Hebrew Bible “stories for their action, their mystery, their terror... Read More

N. S. Nuseibeh’s "Namesake" is a brilliant collection of essays threaded together by reflections on an early Muslim warrior. Nuseibeh’s family members believe they are direct descendants of Nusaybah bint Ka’ab, one of the first... Read More

Matthew L. Harris’s exposé of one religion’s role in US race relations, "Second-Class Saints" covers an ill-understood episode in Mormon history. The book charts the history of Mormonism’s infamous “priesthood ban,” a... Read More

Hard moments in the lives of four friends become less insurmountable thanks to the mysterious addition of a book about Jesus to their group in the novel "Miracle at Angels Bend". In R. Christian Bohlen’s allegorical novel "Miracle at... Read More