Twice each year, CC publishes a books issue. And it’s that time of year again! These are some of my favorite issues of our magazine. They help me identify books to add to my (ever growing, already-too-long-for-my-lifetime) reading list, and even for the books that don’t make that list, I learn a lot from the insightful reviews. If you’re a subscriber, you’ll be able to download a PDF of our entire spring books issue later this week.
But waiting is no fun, so I have a few of those reviews in this email for you. Scroll down for a review of historian Heather Cox Richardson’s book that connects many separate attempts to subvert US democracy. Another review covers Mitri Raheb’s critique of Christian Zionism (both the conservative and liberal varieties). We also rolled out a brand new type of article in this books issue: Trending Topics. In this one, my colleague Jessica Mesman sums up five new books on Israel and Jewish identity.
I also wrote one our new Trending Topics articles, so stay tuned! In the meantime, scroll down for even more great content, like a book review about a womanist reading of 1 Corinthians, a poem about a poem (about the environment), and more.
Email me: What book is next up on your to-read list?
“Heather Cox Richardson is skilled at connecting dots. She links the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, six months into Trump’s presidency with the anti-Catholic mobs of the 1830s, the Klan rallies of the 1860s, and anti–New Deal demonstrations of the 1930s.”
“Palestinian Lutheran pastor and theologian Mitri Raheb draws a bold line connecting the settler colonialism of Western Christendom with the application of Zionism in Israel and the Palestinian territories.”
“Mitzi J. Smith depicts the intersections of freedperson status, multiple ways of knowing, and disdain from Paul as a map that connects Apollos, Chloe, and Black women.”
