The last reads of the decade

Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, Aeon, Gender Is Not a Spectrum

Tara Isabella Burton, America, How I learned to love my Christianity

Michael Knowles, American Mind, The Secret Wisdom of Transgender Revolution

Cathy Young, Arc Digital, Harry Potter and the Transgender Revolution

Emma Green, The Atlantic, The Crisis of American Christianity, Viewed From Great Britain
Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, The Moral Universe of Tim Keller
Emma Green, The Atlantic, How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
Emma Green, The Atlantic, The Christian Withdrawal Experiment
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Evangelicalism's Silent Majority

Fred Wilson, AVC, What Happened In the 2010s

Anne Helen Petersen, Buzzfeed, Forgive Us Our Debts
Katherine Miller, Buzzfeed, The 2010s Broke Our Sense of Time

Brandon D Smith, Center for Baptist Renewal, The Lord's Supper is More than a Memory

Elizabeth Pease, Christ & Pop Culture, A Hidden Life: Terrence Malick Helps Us See the Invisible

David Bentley Hart, Church Life Journal, Richard Dawkins Discovers His Ideal Idiom and Audience

Erin Leaverton, Comment, Meeting Grace

J V Fersko, Credo Magazine, Union with Christ and the Problem of Identity

Wesley Hill, CT, Remember the Future
Mark Galli, CT, Trump Should Be Removed From Office
Timothy Dalrymple, CT,  The Flag in the Whirlwind: An Update from CT’s President

Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, Dallas Morning News, When 6th graders can access rape porn on their smartphones, school becomes toxic

Ruth Buchanan, Fathom,  I have the spiritual gift of reading. 

Elizabeth Stice, Front Porch Republic, It's a Wonderful Film
John Nichols, Front Porch Republic, The Enchantments of Mammon–and the Hope of Alternative Enchantments

Daniel Cox & Amelia Thompson-DeVeaux, FiveThirtyEight, Millennials Are Leaving Religion and Not Coming Back

John M Frame, TGC, Where Did Gentleness Go as a Pastoral Virtue?
Karen Swallow Prior, TGC,  How ‘Little Women’ Re-Reads the Original Novel

Jim Farber, Guardian, 'He was a musical warlock': reflecting on Frank Zappa's greatest album at 50
Bridie Jabour, Guardian, The millennials at 31: welcome to the age of misery

Martyn Wendell Jones, Image Journal, Smells Like Teen Spirit: God and Adolescence in New Literature

Sam Buckland, LARB, Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” and the Banality of Good

Luma Simms, Law & Liberty, Persecution, True and False

Samuel James, Letter & Liturgy, Yeah, But What if the 'Elites' Are Right?

Amy Peeler, Marginalia, History Is Not Enough: The Bible After Modernity

Charles L Marohn Jr, Marketwatch, This ‘Ponzi scheme’ surrounding development leaves most cities and towns functionally insolvent

James Hatch, Medium, My Semester With the Snowflakes

Matthew Arbo, MereO, Come, Desire of Nations, Come: An Advent Reflection
Joshua Heavin, MereO, A Hidden Life as Temptation Narrative
Susannah Black, MereO, The Political Theology of Brunch: a Post in Honor of the Season
Cameron Shaffer, MereO, Our Fathers Left Us Evangelicalism

Nick Pinkerton, Metrograph, Things We Lost in the Fire: A Hidden Life and the Films of Terrence Malick

Taylor Fang, MIT Technology Review, We asked teenagers what adults are missing about technology. This was the best response.

Author Unkown, Nature Sacred, Nature and a New Beginning

Matt Frost, The New Atlantis, After Climate Despair

Gabriel Winant, New Republic, Life Under the Algorithm

Gracy Olmstead, NYT, Trump Wants to Take From the Poor and Give to the Wealthy
Molly Worthen, NYT, What Would Jesus Do About Inequality?
Ross Douthat, NYT, Laughing Through the Trump Era
A O Scott, NYT, ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Review: Revolution No. 9
Ross Douthat, NYT, The World Christmas Made
Tim Kreider, NYT, We Can't See 'Star Wars' Anymore
Esau McCaulley, NYT, The Bloody Fourth Day of Christmas
Reed Abelson, NYT, It Looks Like Health Insurance, but It’s Not. ‘Just Trust God,’ Buyers Are Told.

Tara Isabella Burton, Plough, Another Hundred People

Michael Wear, Reclaiming Hope, Why the Christianity Today Editorial Matters
Michael Wear, Reclaiming Hope, More on the CT editorial, thoughts on 2020 and other ideas

Tyler Huckabee, Relevant, Greta Gerwig on How Being Moral Is Both ‘Old Fashioned and Wildly New’

J Kameron Carter, Religion News Service, Behind Christianity Today’s editorial is a deeper crisis of America's religion of whiteness
Matthew Arbo, Religion News Service, Trump's tweets and actions aren't good fruit — or moral

Ruth Graham, Slate, The Hidden Power of Evangelical Women

Marlo Safi, Spectator, Let's talk about porn

Steve Chu & Randianne Leyshon Holbrook, UMBC Magazine, Creating Community Through Food

Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is what happens when a franchise gives up
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women adaptation is genuinely extraordinary
Jane Coaston, Vox, Christianity Today called for Trump’s removal. Here’s why that doesn’t matter.
Kyle Chayka, Vox, Can monoculture survive the algorithm?

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, With A Hidden Life, Terrence Malick Takes on the Evils of History

Eric Cortallessa, Washington Monthly, Who Does Maryland’s Governor Really Work For?

Sarah Pulliam Bailey, WaPo, ‘A wake-up call:’ British theologian N.T. Wright on the prosperity gospel, climate change and Advent
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, WaPo, Christianity Today, an influential evangelical magazine, says Trump ‘should be removed from office’
Amy B Wang, WaPo, At one evangelical church, congregants dismiss the Christianity Today editorial — if they’ve read it at all 

I've never done this

Stephen Janis & Taya Graham, AFRO, Transparency Against Police Brutality

Eve Tushnet, America, The unique (and surprisingly spiritual) relationship between a dentist, a patient and one’s sense of self

Julius Krein, American Affairs, The Real Class War

Libby Emmons, The American Conservative, When Free Speech Clashes With Trans Power
Michael Hendrix, The American Conservative, A Stronger America Needs 'Strong Towns' First
Addison del Mastro, The American Conservative, Is American Sprawl Already Bankrupt?

Tara Isabella Burton, The American Interest, The Neo-Paganism of Jordan Peterson
Leah Libresco Sargeant, The American Interest, A Playhouse Divided, on God and Trump

James Poulos, The American Mind, Is America Worth Saving?

Emma Green, The Atlantic, What Conservative Pastors Didn’t Say After El Paso

Chavi Eve Karkowsky, The Atlantic, I Found the Outer Limits of My Pro-choice Beliefs
Yara Bayoumy & Kathy Gilsanan, The Atlantic, A Reformed White Nationalist Says the Worst Is Yet to Come
Ken White, The Atlantic, Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison
Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic, The Quickening
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Tearing Down the Myth of the Rural White Voter
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, What Your Politics Do to Your Morals
Alan Jacobs, The Atlantic, Evangelical Has Lost Its Meaning

Jamyla Krempel, Baltimore Beat, From Baltimore

Jonathan M Pitts, Baltimore Sun, In slavery, her family was owned by his. Now they attend a Baltimore church seeking to atone for its past.
Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, City’s secret passageways, crypts and other architectural gems on display with Doors Open Baltimore
Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, BSO music director Marin Alsop criticizes how symphony is run, hints she is “nearing the end” of her tenure 
Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 125,000 kids in U.S. foster care await adoption. 32 celebrated ‘forever’ families Saturday in Baltimore

Casey Cep, The Believer, An Interview with Leslie Jamison

Meghan O'Gieblyn, Bookforum, Replaceable You

James G Chappel, Boston Review, Bad Romance

Krystie Lee Yandoli, Buzzfeed News, “The Good Place” Creator Michael Schur Explained The Real Message Of The Show

Tara Isabella Burton, Catapult, I Spent Years Searching for Magic—I Found God Instead

Carey Helmick, Catholic Herald, There's no excuse for letting school children go hungry

Joshua Heavin, Christ & Pop Culture, Following in the Footsteps of Sophie Scholl’s Misfit Messiah

Brad East, Christian Century, Seeing the crucified Christ in my wife's C-section
Michael J Gorman, Christian Century, A letter from Paul to Christians in the US
Jason Byassee, Christian Century, Rachel Held Evans, public theologian
Phil Christman, Christian Century, The deep roots of America's enchantment with capitalism

Collin Huber, CT, Put Not Your Trust in Credentials
Martyn Wendell Jones, CT, Depression Drowns Our Hope but Points Us to Truth
Jayson Georges, CT, There's More to Romans Than Personal Salvation
Karen Swallow Prior, CT,  Kate Bowler: Why Christian Women Become Celebrity ‘Influencers’
Tish Harrison Warren,  CT, The Necessary Partnership of Truth and Charity

Rachel Toor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Scholars Talk Writing: Stanley Hauerwas

Alan Jacobs, Comment, Prophet of the Human-Built World: An Introduction to John Ruskin
Katelyn Beaty, Comment, Proximity Over Punditry

Tim Markatos, Commonweal, No Room for Despair
Matthew Boudway, Commonweal, Dry Bones

Patricia Lockwood, The Cut, Patricia Lockwood’s Cat Doesn’t Always Speak in a French Accent

Rachel Darnall, Daughters of Sarah, Why I Am Not a Complementarian

Nanjala Nyabola, Disegno, Loose Strands

Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books, Alarms and Excursions

Phillip Cary, Eclectic Theology, The Meaning of Protestant Theology
Fr Aiden Kimel, Eclectic Theology, ‘That All Shall Be Saved’: An Introductory Review

John Michael Greer, Ecosophia, The Next Twilight of Environmentalism

Diane Roth, Englewood Review of Books, Where is the Common Good?

Elizabeth Merrill, ESPN, Whatever happened to Villanova basketball star Shelly Pennefather? 'So I made this deal with God.'

Travis Montgomery, Exegetical Tools, How Does Christ Fulfill the Law? Kingship and Matthew 5

Kaitlyn Scheiss, Fathom, Invisible Labor

Matthew D Wright, First Things, The Good of Politics
Stanley Hauerwas, First Things, Go With God: An Open Letter to Young Christians on Their Way to College
Brandon McGinley, First Things, Infant Baptism and the Logic of Liberalism
Elizabeth C Corey, First Things, Notes on Summer Camp
Robert W Jenson, First Things, How the World Lost Its Story
Ian Marcus Corbin, First Things, Rooted Cosmopolitanism

Emily Andrews, Forma Review, Maryanne Wolf's Positive Way Forward for the Modern, Distracted Reader
Anthony Barr, Forma Review, A Bundle of Hopes and Hungers

Russell Arben Fox, Front Porch Republic, Climate Change, Dirty Hands, and the Grace (and Hope) of Limits
Amanda Patchin, Front Porch Republic, The Pleasures of a Liturgical Calendar of Reading

Thabiti Anyabwile, TGC, 3 Ways to Spoil the Gospel
Matthew Lee Anderson, TGC, How Pornography Makes Us Less Human and Less Humane

Laura Glen Louis, Hudson Review, Blue Monotone

Nick Olson, Image, An American Body Politic

Myles Werntz, In All Things, Making Nothing of Evil, and Everything of God: A Review of That All Shall Be Saved, Part 1 and Part 2

Luke O'Neil, Intelligencer, What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News

Leslie Jamison, Literary Review, Twice in Oslo

Ben Crosby, Living Church, The ACNA BCP 2019: A Critical Appreciation

Sara Fredman, Longreads, Mother/Russia
Laura Lippman, Longreads, Whole 60

Gerhard Stübben, Macrina Magazine, God's Affirmation of the Physical: The Meaning of Christ's Resurrection

Wesley Hill, Marginalia, Sex, Flesh, God: Towards a Theology of Carnal Life

Bridget Eileen, Meditations of a Traveling Nun, Christian, Lesbian, Sojourner: Keeping the Gospel in Focus

Alan Noble, Medium, On Living
Allegra Hobbes, Medium, The Self-Help Movement That Is Upending American Christianity

Myles Werntz, MereO, Christ Ever Present, But to What Church? Reviewing Phillip Cary’s “Meaning of Protestant Theology”
Myles Werntz, MereO, What Is a Nation?
Scott Beauchamp, MereO, An Intercourse with Ghosts: The Unabomber, Irony, and Terror
Susannah Black, MereO, Heroes of the Fourth Turning: the Possession of American Conservatism
Jake Meador, MereO, Book Review: Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris

Ian, Mockingbird, In the Midst of Life We Are in October

Toni Morrison, The Nation, No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, The Nation, A Shared Place
Aaron Bady, The Nation, Jedediah Purdy Has an Idea That Could Save Us From Capitalism and the Climate Crisis
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, The Nation, Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?

Madeline Kearns, National Review, The Tragedy of the Trans Child

Gary Saul Morson, New Criterion, How the great truth dawned

Walter Shapiro, New Republic, Arguing the World

Samuel Earle, New Statesman, Heidegger, the homesick philosopher

Nate Chinen, NPR, A Lost Album From John Coltrane, With Thanks To A French-Canadian Director

Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, The Finale of "The Americans" Was Elegant, Poignant, and Unforgettable
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, David French, Sohrab Ahmari, and the Battle for the Future of Conservativism

Batya Ungar-Sargon, New York Review of Books, A Tale of Two Churches

Agnes Callard, NYT, Why Philosophers Shouldn't Sign Petitions
Tara Isabella Burton, NYT, The Religious Hunger of the Radical Right
James Poniewozik, NYT, In ‘The Americans’ Finale, the Deepest Cuts Don’t Leave a Mark
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Abortion Mysticism of Pete Buttigieg
Gracy Olmstead, NYT, Don't Let Climate Change Stop You From Becoming a Parent
Carl Zimmer, NYT, Birds Are Vanishing from North America
Winnie Hu & Andrea Salcedo, NYT, Cars All but Banned on One of Manhattan’s Busiest Streets
Nadja Popovich & Denise Lu, NYT, The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions in America
Anna Louie Sussman, NYT, The End of Babies
Gracy Olmstead, NYT, Our Schools Can’t Solve the Problems of Our Rigid Workweek
Agnes Callard, NYT, The Real Cost of Tweeting About My Kids
Ross Douthat, NYT, Social Media and the Populist Movement
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Case for Bernie
Tish Harrison Warren, NYT, Want to Get Into the Christmas Spirit? Face the Darkness

Ethan McLeod, NextCity, What Baltimore’s Plan to Redesign 11 Miles of Its Waterfront Means for Existing Communities

Katie Manning, The Other Journal, The Book of Fists

Bailey Pickens, The Outline, Marianne Williamson isn’t kooky, she’s just religious
BD McClay, The Outline, ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ is a haunted play about religious conservatives
Rosa Lyster, The Outline, This essay is just Harry Potter for people who think comparing things to Harry Potter is stupid

Natalia Dashan, Palladium, The Real Problem At Yale Is Not Free Speech

Nina MacLaughlin, Paris Review, The Siren Song

Eve Tushnet, Patheos, We Don't Need No Water...
John Ehrett, Patheos, “Heroes of the Fourth Turning”: The One Play You Really, Really Need to See

Toni Morrison, Personal Blog, The Fisherwoman
Derek E Radney, Personal Blog, Embracing Infant Baptism: An Uncommon Path

Brad East, Plough, A Better Country
Eugene McCarraher, Plough, Comrade Ruskin
Phil Christman, Plough, So You Want to Be a Writer?
Jonathan Malesic, Plough, The Noonday Demon
John Rhodes, Plough, Anabaptist Technology

Agnes Callard, The Point, Do You Want My Garbage?
Agnes Callard, The Point, The Devil's Advocate's Advocate
Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman, The Point, On Choosing Life
Wesley Hill, The Point, Unnecessary Gifts
Agnes Callard, The Point, Half a Person
Agnes Callard, The Point, Parenting and Panic

Nate Chinen, Pitchfork, Blue World
Rawiya Kameir, Pitchfork, Kanye West: Jesus Is King

Emily Hill, Polygon, Bob and Linda Belcher are my marriage goals

Aaron Goldfarb, Punch, Who is Drunk Thomas Pynchon?

Lauren Winner, Relevant, Lauren Winner on Real Sex

Adelle M Banks, Religion News Service, Black clergy vows to forge their own path
R Stone, Religion News Service, James K.A. Smith: St. Augustine might just be the therapist we need today

Shea Serrano, The Ringer, “You Don’t Drink Scotch”: An Appreciation of ‘Scrubs’ and the Inimitable Dr. Cox

Anna Bauman & Lauren Hernández, San Francisco Chronicle, Witness to BART killing describes horror aboard the moving train

Namwali Serpell, Slate, On Black Difficulty

Ruth Graham, Slate, Rachael Denhollander’s Witness
Ashley Feinberg, Slate, This Sure Looks Like Mitt Romney’s Secret Twitter Account (Update: It Is)

Alan Jacobs, Snakes & Ladders, Christianity and capitalism reconsidered

John W Hawthorne, Sociological Reflections, Truman Burbank's "Deconversion"

Emily Esfahani Smith, TED Ideas, The two kinds of stories we tell ourselves

Ralph Smith, Theopolis, What Jeffrey Epstein Got Right

Helen Macdonald, Times Literary Supplement, Pigeon treat

Paul Kingsnorth, Tricycle, The Witness

Michael Zelenko, The Verge, The High Hopes of Low-Tech Phone

Bettina Makalintal, Vice, We Interviewed the Priest From the 'Hot Priest Summer' TikTok

Rachael Denhollander, Vox, I faced Larry Nassar in court. Epstein’s accusers should have had the same chance.
J Brian Charles, Vox, The New York Times 1619 Project is reshaping the conversation on slavery. Conservatives hate it.
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, The Americans has always been a show about faith
Hope Reese, Vox, A champion of the unplugged, earth-conscious life, Wendell Berry is still ahead of us
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Gemini Man, starring Will Smith, spells catastrophe for the future of movies
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, How Heroes of the Fourth Turning, about Catholic intellectuals, became one of fall’s buzziest plays

Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, The Meaning of Elizabeth’s Dream in The Americans Finale

Ekemini Uwan, WaPo, How Toni Morrison’s words pierced me, as a black Christian female writer 
Erin Cox, WaPo, Years before Trump’s attacks, Freddie Gray’s death sparked a huge effort to heal Baltimore. It wasn’t enough.
Stacia L Brown, WaPo, Toni Morrison taught me that I owe myself my whole self
Tara Isabella Burton, WaPo, For Marianne Williamson and Donald Trump, religion is all about themselves
 Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, In God's country 
Alyssa Rosenberg, WaPo, How TV made Christianity radical again
Hannah Knowles, WaPo,  As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back
Pete Candler, WaPo, How an ancient African saint helped me make sense of 9/11
Veery Huleatt, WaPo, Progressive seminary students offered a confession to plants. How do we think about sins against nature?
Jemar Tisby, WaPo, White Christians, do not cheapen the hug and message of forgiveness from Botham Jean’s brother
Gillian Brockell, WaPo, Here are all the things I didn't know about stillbirth, until it happened to me
James K A Smith, WaPo, Trump's evangelical advisers are promoting Paula White, but here's the book they should really read
Michael F Bird, WaPo, Jesus isn't interested in America's two-party division

Wesley Hill, Writing in the Dust, Division and Reunion

Summertime and the reading is plenty

Tara Isabella Burton, America, What do millennials want from religion? Three shows have the answer.

Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative, Virtue and Vice in an Age of Addiction

Mandy Lee Catron, The Atlantic, What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
Emma Green, The Atlantic, When Your Pregnancy Is Political
Emma Green, The Atlantic, The Nationalists Take Washington
Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, The Future of the City is Childless
Faith Hill, The Atlantic, They Tried to Start a Church Without God. For a While, It Worked.

Angela N Carroll, Baltimore Magazine, What Pennsylvania Avenue’s Official Arts District Designation Means for the Community

The Editors, Baltimore Sun, Better to have a few rats than to be one

Kaitlyn Schiess, Christ & Pop Culture, Booksmart and Female Ambition

Amanda Kolson Hurley, CityLab, What Internet Memes Get Wrong About Breezewood, Pennsylvania
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, CityLab, In Trump vs. Baltimore, No One Is Winning

John Blake, CNN, What both the left and the right get wrong about my neighborhood in Baltimore

Matthew Milliner, Comment, Richard Rohr: A Field Guide

Kate Shellnut, CT, Amazon Sold $240K of ‘Liturgy of the Ordinary’ Fakes, Publisher Says
Heath W Carter, CT,  Drilling for Oil, Contending for Truth
Ed Shaw, CT,  Celibate Gay Christians: Neither Shockingly Conservative nor Worryingly Liberal
Timothy Dalrymple, CT, On Court Prophets and Wilderness Prophets
Mark Galli, CT, And Now, the Star of the Show...
Abigail Murrish, CT, Both Purity Culture and Hook-Up Culture Failed Me
Kutter Callaway, CT,  Boomers, Take It from Woody or Iron Man: It’s Time to Pass the Torch

Abby Perry, Curator, Surrendering a Shoebox

Cary Aspinwall, Dave Boucher & Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 'You're gonna kill me!': Dallas police body cam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa's life

Kate Storey, Esquire, Susan Was Seinfeld's Most Tragic Character. Today, She Teaches Ukulele.

Tommy Welty, Fathom, Helplessness Blues

Jake Meador, First Things, The Nashville Statement and the PCA

Eve Fairbanks, HuffPost Highline, Behold, the Millennial Nuns

Adam Roberts, Image, First Men and Original Sins

David Ehrlich, IndieWire, ‘The Lion King’ Review: Disney’s Remake Is a Disastrous Plunge into the Uncanny Valley

Aaron Gordon, Jalopnik, The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Would Turn Sidewalks Into Cages If It Could

Eve Tushnet, Kirk Center, A Justified Confessions

Joel Looper, LARB, How Would Bonhoeffer Vote?

Helen Dale, Law & Liberty, Return of the Pagans
Micah Meadowcroft, Law & Liberty, Rangers and Hobbits: Towards Liberal Arts for the Common Good

Michael Washburn, Longreads, Tom Petty's Problematic Album 'Southern Accents'

Susie Mendoza, McSweeney's, The Biggest Challenge of Parenting Is Becoming a Human Meat Suit

Tara Isabella Burton, MereO, Rise of the Titans: Fascism, Christianity, and the Seduction of the Brutal
Jake Meador, MereO: Commonplaces, Liturgical Jigs and Millennial Burnout
Jake Meador, MereO, Against the Political Atheists: On the Safety of the Dead Consensus
Jake Meador, MereO: Commonplaces, Augustinianism and Audience in “In Search of the Common Good”

Marybeth Baggett, Moral Apologetics, In Defense of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead: A Response to Jessica Hooten Wilson

Andrea Long Chu, n+1, The Pink

Alan Jacobs, The New Atlantis, After Technopoly

Jill Lepore, New Yorker, The Lingering of Loss
Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, Going Home with Wendell Berry

Nicole King, Newsweek, Trump's Dehumanizing Attacks on Baltimore Are Hiding an Awful Truth—and He Knows It

Costica Bradatan, NYT, Democracy Is for the Gods
John Eligon, NYT, When ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Invoked in the Abortion Debate
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Meaning of Marianne Williamson
Michael Wear, NYT, Democrats Shouldn’t Be So Certain About Abortion
Leana S Wen, NYT, Why I Left Planned Parenthood

Dan Brooks, The Outline, Manly wedding rings for tough guys who are dudes
Sam Adler-Bell, The Outline, What's left of liberalism?

CJ Hauser, Paris Review, The Crane Wife

Emily Wolfe, Pittsburgh City Paper,  Pennsylvania’s hottest Twitter account right now is … the state treasury department

Phil Christman, Plough, Poetry and Prophecy, Dust and Ashes
Martyn Wendell Jones, Plough, You Can't Go Home Again

Agnes Callard, The Point, Spoiled Rich Kids

Tim Alberta, Politico, ‘Mother Is Not Going to Like This’: The 48 Hours That Almost Brought Down Trump

Agata Kasprolewicz, Przekrój, Mao and the Sparrows

Ian Paul, Psephizo, Does your faith have a crumple zone?

Haley Stewart, Public Discourse, Can We Justify Bringing Children into This Dark World?

Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service, In Brooklyn, ‘tradpunk’ Christianity meets millennial counterculture

Brad East, Resident Theologian, Against pop culture
Brad East, Resident Theologian, Pop culture, for and against
Brad East, Resident Theologian, Questions for Jake Meador after reading his lovely new book

Ekemini Uwan, Sistamatic Theology, Say My Name

Laura Turner, Slate, Sixteen and Evangelical
Lawrence Lanahan, Slate, Trump Tried to Build a Wall Around West Baltimore

Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian, The Smell of Newborn Babies Triggers the Same Reward Centers as Drugs

John W Hawthorne, Sociological Reflections, Evangelical Influencers and Evangelical Populism

Fraser Myers, Spiked, Meet the anti-woke left

Glenn O'Brien, Spin, Tom Waits: Our 1985 Interview, Tom Waits for No Man

Jane Coaston, Vox, A question for conservatives: what if the left was right on race?
Laura Turner, Vox, Couples all over Instagram are “doing life together.” Here’s where it came from.

Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Dear Clare: I can’t wait to welcome you to the world. I have so much I want to show you. 

Matthew Walther, The Week, The Jeffrey Epstein case is why people believe in Pizzagate
Bonnie Kristian, The Week, Will evangelicals thwart Trump's unchristian refugee ban?

Cliff Sosis & Agnes Callard, What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?, Agnes Callard Interview

End of May to July 4

Matthew B Crawford, American Affairs, Algorithmic Governance and Political Legitimacy

Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative, Feasting Even During Ordinary Time

Tara Isabella Burton, The American Interest, The Rise of Progressive Occultism

Fr. Stephen Freeman, Ancient Faith, You Have One Job – Pray – On Behalf of All and for All

Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, Why So Many Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption
Michael Wear, The Atlantic, The Abortion Debate is No Longer About Policy
Alan Jacobs, The Atlantic, What a Clash Between Conservatives Reveals
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Joe Biden's Tell on Abortion
Jedidiah Purdy, The Atlantic, A Nature Writer for the Anthropocene
Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum
Lyman Stone, The Atlantic, The Boomers Ruined Everything
Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic, Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans
Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, Christ in the Camps
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Imagining Post-Trump Nationalism
Kate Bowler, The Atlantic, How to Speak to Someone Who's Suffering
Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity

Ed Simon, The Baffler, In the Hands of Angry Gods

Lisa Snowden-McCray, Baltimore Beat, In Baltimore, Accountability Has Become A Progressive Cause: A conversation with Bill Henry

Mar Ruetter, Baltimore Brew, Demolishing Cab Calloway’s house to make way for a park is shortsighted, critics say
Fern Shen, Baltimore Brew, Hampden bike crash victim, who faced many struggles, recalled as a generous soul

Lauren Cohen, Baltimore Magazine, The Iconic Marble Bar is Being Revived Into a Community Cafe
Ron Cassie, Baltimore Magazine, Coming Clean

Shelley Halstead, Baltimore Sun, Development plan recycles poverty in Baltimore

Vicky Baker, BBC News, The preachers getting rich from poor Americans

Meghan O'Gieblyn, The Believer, Good Shepherds

Tara Isabella Burton, Catapult, The Gospel According to Fleabag

Jose Mena, Catholic Herald, The Catholic turn to socialism is something to celebrate

Michael Martin, Center for Sophiological Studies, Christian Neopaganism for Dummies

Claire Fyrqvist, Church Life Journal, Are Real-Life Pro-Lifers Only Pro-Birth?

Ian Klaus, CityLab, To Understand American Political Anger, Look to ‘Peripheral France’

Anne Snyder, Comment, Persuading in a Divided Age: The Christian's Privilege
Hannah LaGrand, Comment, A Tidy Mind
Matthew Loftus, Comment, When the City of Man is Redlined

Andrew J Bacevich, Commonweal, Pundit on a Pilgrimage

Chloe Watlington, Commune, Who Owns Tomorrow?

Wesley Hill, Covenant, Respecting the Mystery: On Christian Doctrine

Sarah Miller, The Cut, The Best Abortion Ever

Kate Shellnut, CT,  How Can Today’s Pro-Life Christians Build Trust in the Movement?
Tish Harrison Warren, CT, Pro-Lifers Aren't Hypocrites
Jessica Hooten Wilson, CT, The Devil Lives in the Mirror
Andrew Wilson, CT, Bringing a Tent Peg to a Sword Fight

Tommy Welty, Curator, The Hand the Feeds You

Fr. Brian Davies, The Dominican Friars, Preacher's Panic

Laura Lundgren, Fathom, The Fruitful Tension of Paradox

Carl R Trueman, First Things, Blessing When Cursed
Obianuju Ekeocha, First Things, Murder Disguised as Care

David Kern, Forma, For Sarah Ruden and Emily Wilson Translating the Great Books is an Act of Love

John Médaille, Front Porch Republic, Abortion: Realpolitik, Kulturkampf, and Evangelization
DL Mayfield, Front Porch Republic, Blessed Are the Working Poor

Judith Viorst, Glamour, How to Be Happy? A Nearly 90-Year-Old Has Some Advice

Addison Del Mastro, Kirk Center, Americans' Dignity, and the Nation's Shame
Micah Meadowcroft, Kirk Center, The Revolution Is Still Permanent

Brad East, LARB, Enter Paul: On Paula Fredriksen’s “Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle” and “When Christians Were Jews”
Madeline Lane-McKinley, LARB, Unthinking the Family in “Full Surrogacy Now”

Marissa R Moss, LA Times, Lil Nas X's ‘Old Town Road’ sounds like country’s future. So why has Nashville snubbed it?

Emily Temple, LitHub, Ulysses: Good or Bad?

Wesley Hill, Living Church, Reveling in Hope

Alicia Oltuski, McSweeney's, I Like My Anxiety Like I Like My Books
Chas Gillespie, McSweeney's, Every NIMBY's Speech at a Public Hearing
Ahmed Amer, McSweney's, I Finally Got a Company-Branded Thermos and All It Took Was Five Years of Wage Slavery
Rebecca Saltzman, McSweeney's, I Believe Every Child is Precious, Except for the Ones We're Locking Up in Cages

Jake Meador, MereO, David French and the Revolutionary Style in Conservative Journalism
Susannah Black, MereO, Rise up, wretched man: enough tears have flowed.
Brad East, MereO, Five Theses on Preaching
Susannah Black, MereO, On Nick Kristof, Jean Vanier, and Human Resources
Jonathan Cole, MereO, Political Theology in an Age of Discontent
Jake Meador, MereO, Book Review: Dignity by Chris Arnade
Hannah Anderson, MereO, Book Review: My Father Left Me Ireland by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Jake Meador, MereO, Post-Liberalism and American Racism
Sean O'Hare, MereO, A Call to Remembrance: Notre Dame and the Internet Age

Rachel M Cohen, The Nation, The Radical Teachers' Movement Comes to Baltimore

Ian Leslie, New Statesman, We know a lot less than we think about the world – which explains the allure of “simplism”

Richard Brody, New Yorker, 'Booksmart,' Reviewed: Olivia Wilde's Toothless Teen Comedy

Gracy Olmstead, NYT, How Republicans Hurt the Fight Against Abortion
Nellie Bowles, NYT, These Millennials Got New Roommates. They’re Nuns.
Ross Douthat, NYT, What Are Conservatives Actually Debating?
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Politics of Dystopia
Katelyn Beaty, NYT, How Should Christians Have Sex?
Jill Lepore, NYT, Fifty Years Ago We Landed on the Moon. Why Should We Care Now?

Sandra Song, Paper, How Country Continues to Erase Lil Nas X

Andy Matuschak, Personal Blog, Why books don't work

Matthew Loftus, Plough, The Birthday Party at the End of the World

Agnes Callard, The Point, Persuade or Be Persuaded

Luma Simms, Public Discourse, Conservative Women and the Intra-Conservatism Debate

Michael Wear, Reclaiming Hope Newsletter, A difficult day

Tyler Huckabee, Relevant, Bestselling Author R.O. Kwon On Why She Stopped Believing in God

Ryan P Burge, Religion in Public, Which Party Has Become More Polarized on Abortion?

Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service, Can witches and consumer culture coexist?
Tish Harrison Warren, Religion News Service, In my church, some of us voted for President Trump. All of us pray for him.
Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service, There's more to wellness than looking pretty

Josephine Wolff, Slate, (Almost) Never Pay the Ransom
Kevin Arceneaux, Bert N Bakker, Claire Gothreau, and Gijs Schumacher, Slate, We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.

Randianne Leyshon Holbrook, UMBC Magazine, Hitting All the Right Notes

Susan Miller, USA Today, The young are regarded as the most tolerant generation. That's why results of this LGBTQ survey are 'alarming'

Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Booksmart is like Superbad, but with girls and better
Jane Coaston, Vox, The intersectionality wars
Jane Coaston, Vox, David French vs. Sohrab Ahmari and the battle dividing conservatives, explained

Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo,  Want millennials to get married and have babies? Change the policies that stop us.
Tara Isabella Burton, WaPo,  A notorious pickup artist found God. Lots of angry white radicals do.
Christine Emba, WaPo, Men are in trouble. 'Incels' are proof.
Jessica M Goldstein, WaPo, How one critic’s once-iconoclastic views about television’s ascendancy went mainstream 
Kate Bowler, WaPo, Living a chronic life in a fix-it-now world
Patrick J Deneen, WaPo, A defense of conservatism that veers toward liberalism
Lisa Snowden-McCray, WaPo, A local's guide to Baltimore

Matthew Walther, The Week, America is an empire, not a nation
Matthew Walther, The Week, Everyone is wrong about socialism
Matthew Walther, The Week, A striking, joyful portrait of America's greatest divide
Matthew Walther, The Week, The conservative civil war won't change anything
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week, The conservative case against capitalism

Dante Stewart, The Witness, To Shape A New World: William Seymour and Black Faith in the Drama of Civil Rights – Part 1, Part 2