‘This Life, This Rich, Anchored Life’


Review by Christine Havens

Julian of Norwich, a 15th-century mystic, saint, and the first woman to write a manuscript in English, inspires readers to this day with her struggles to appease a seemingly angry God. Read the review, and hear an interview with the author on the TLC Podcast.

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Newly Accessible Medieval Worlds


Review by Hannah Matis

Pilgrims and Revelations demonstrate the ebullient life of the late Middle Ages. The vivid nature of late medieval religion revealed in these novels offers an appealing, inclusive alternative to our grimly polarized society. Read the review.

Tips for Political Wrestling


Review by W.L. Prehn

Patriotism is a good, even God-given, thing, but love of country must include compassion. We must “go deep in the quest for rootedness,” which means seeing ourselves not as Americans alone but part of a transnational Christian movement transcending nation-state and patriotism in the narrowest sense. Read the review.

Advent for Our Age


Review by Beth Maynard

Author Tish Harrison Warren does a particularly good job noting the social-justice implications of the season. That fact alone means this book fills a need: what other work covers the complex themes of Advent for non-specialists, much less does it in a way that is conversant with contemporary preoccupations? Read the review.

Advent with the Beasts


Review by Cole Hartin

In this bestiary set to an Advent tune, we meet a painted turtle whose work is to wait, a muskrat during his winter swim, and tens of thousands of honeybees who know that to live through the winter, "they all must dance and shiver together.” Read the review.
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