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1 month ago | 
hadassahmagazine.org | Sandee Brawarsky |Binnie Kirshenbaum |Susan Josephs |Lucy Adlington |Kelsey Osgood
Email Print Counting BackwardsBy Binnie Kirshenbaum (Soho Press)This novel, author Binnie Kirshenbaum’s eighth, focuses closely on a loving, happily married couple—he is a scientist; she is an artist—as the husband’s health plunges because of early-onset Lewy body dementia. With dark humor and much insight into love and grief, Kirshenbaum details the couple’s unraveling lives as they shift from sharing dreams to an unexpected place of despair.
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2 months 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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Jan 29, 2025 | 
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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Aug 27, 2024 | 
hls.harvard.edu | Kelsey Osgood
By Kelsey OsgoodVia Religion News Service(RNS) — In bodycam footage from an April 2023 traffic stop in rural Ohio, an unseen law enforcement officer approaches a spartan black buggy, typical of vehicles used by the Swartzentruber Amish, and asks the two young men inside if they’ve ever received a ticket. “I think I’m going to tow your buggy, unless you got a light in there,” the cop says. The driver, a young man named Ure Gingerich, looks perplexed, then defiant.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
anabaptistworld.org | Kelsey Osgood
In bodycam footage from an April 2023 traffic stop in rural Ohio, an unseen law enforcement officer approaches a spartan black buggy, typical of vehicles used by the Swartzentruber Amish, and asks the two young men inside if they’ve ever received a ticket. “I think I’m going to tow your buggy, unless you got a light in there,” the cop says. The driver, a young man named Ure Gingerich, looks perplexed, then defiant.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Kelsey Osgood |Rizki Fauzi
(RNS) — In bodycam footage from an April 2023 traffic stop in rural Ohio, an unseen law enforcement officer approaches a spartan black buggy, typical of vehicles used by the Swartzentruber Amish, and asks the two young men inside if they’ve ever received a ticket. “I think I’m going to tow your buggy, unless you got a light in there,” the cop says. The driver, a young man named Ure Gingerich, looks perplexed, then defiant.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
thecut.com | Kelsey Osgood
Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Getty When she saw Bumble’s anti-celibacy ad campaign last month, Lainey Molnar felt like she was being mocked — and she was furious. The dating app had just unveiled billboards reading “Celibacy is not the answer” and “Thou shalt not give up dating and become a nun.” The backlash to what became known as the “Bumble fumble” was swift, and within weeks, the company had taken down the ads and apologized.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
unherd.com | Kelsey Osgood
The other day, my husband took my middle son, who is almost five, to a Whole Foods near our home in New York. When he came back, he told me he’d felt uneasy there. Usually, strangers smile at my son while he’s skipping down the aisles; that day, they shot angry, wary glances his way. Could it be, my husband wondered, because our son was wearing a kippah? Two months ago, I would have dismissed this as mere paranoia.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
18forty.org | Kelsey Osgood
I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a writer who didn’t describe a childhood love of—even an obsession with—reading. I’m no exception. The famous story of toddler me is that one time I escaped from my crib after bedtime and my parents later found me asleep on top of my bookcase. Though I didn’t read precociously early, à la Dahl’s Matilda Wormwood (a heroine of mine in youth), I am told that once I did learn to read, I was voracious.
