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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Manvir Singh |Kelsey Osgood |Pico Iyer |Catherine Nixey
Novelists Lippmann (Lech) and Rogoff (The Castle) take up the midrashic “practice of interpretive engagement with scripture” in this stimulating collection of unorthodox takes on Torah stories.
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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Kelsey Osgood |Pico Iyer |Catherine Nixey |Bruce Gordon
Beth Allison Barr. Brazos, $24.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-58743-589-8Baylor University history professor Barr (The Making of Biblical Womanhood) provides a blistering critique of the narrowing options for female leadership in the evangelical church.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
publishersweekly.com | Angela Denker |Kelsey Osgood |Pico Iyer |Catherine Nixey
Angela Denker. Broadleaf, $27.99 (216p) ISBN 979-8-88983-075-7A shifting American culture is pushing white Christian boys toward radicalization, isolation, and violence, according to this persuasive treatise from pastor Denker (Red State Christians).
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Pico Iyer |Catherine Nixey |Bruce Gordon |Eliza Griswold
Pastor Packiam (The Resilient Pastor) argues in this wide-ranging analysis that the Nicene Creed, a confession of faith that was codified by the Council of Nicaea in fourth century Constantinople, can serve as a reminder of core Christian principles at a time of declining trust in the Western church.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
economist.com | Catherine Nixey
But you may need to bring your welliesBy Catherine Nixey, Britain correspondent, The EconomistYOU WILL walk past Pevensey, where William the Conqueror landed, and Margate, where the Spanish Armada did not. You will walk past Plymouth, from where the Mayflower famously set sail, and Southampton, from where the Titanic infamously did.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
economist.com | Catherine Nixey
Oxford University is often accused of being out of touch. This is unfair. As a senior Oxford fellow recently observed to his vice-chancellor, “Nonne et tibi et mihi certum clarumque videtur, Insignissima Vice-Cancellaria, rerum publicarum et loca et tempora turbulente mutata esse?”* Little more, surely, needs to be said.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Catherine Nixey |Bruce Gordon |Eliza Griswold |Anne Lamott
Megan Goodwin and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst. Beacon, $24.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-80701-275-8Religion shapes virtually all “systems and structures” underpinning society, from the courts to foodways to medical rights, contend Keeping It 101 podcasters Goodwin (Abusing Religion) and Fuerst (Words of Experience) in this stimulating treatise.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Catherine Nixey
'Heresy is a brilliant book' - The Times'Enthralling' - ‘In the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This sentence – and the words of all four gospels – is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind. Yet in the years after the death of Christ there was not merely one word, nor any consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Catherine Nixey
‘Even when Jesus was small, the villagers realized there was something unusual about him,’ observes Catherine Nixey in the opening of her new book. She considers a couple of possible reasons for this, and then proposes: ‘Or perhaps it was because he killed people.’ That’s how she introduces the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which recounts Jesus’s murderous deeds and plays an important part in her book.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
panmacmillan.com | Paul Cartledge |Catherine Nixey
Catherine NixeySynopsis‘In the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This sentence – and the words of all four gospels – is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind. Yet in the years after the death of Christ there was not merely one word, nor any consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered.
