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“Ross Gay calls each essay an incitement, conjuring the revolutionary tactics joy engages as it emerges in the midst of our entanglement with suffering, sorrow, and systems of oppression.” – @BethWaltemath reviews Inciting Joy. @AlgonquinBooks https://t.co/Q58Gm1PPbV

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South to America by Imani Perry has received the National Book Award for nonfiction. Read Richard Lischer’s review. https://t.co/KBeDvdy0S7

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“Tishani Doshi’s work is explicitly theological in part because her strategy of addressing themes is simply to keep repeating that there is a clear and obvious truth. That truth flourishes within legend.” – Benny Vanderburgh reviews A God at the Door. https://t.co/tqtVKA5msK

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“Human responsibility toward technology is front and center in Everyday Sabbath.” – @wagingwisdom reviews Paul D. Patton and Robert H. Woods Jr. @wipfandstock https://t.co/pb1a8YOFJs

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“For Jedediah Purdy, the Constitution itself is one of the greatest obstacles to democracy in America. This is quite a claim.” – @dpgushee reviews Two Cheers for Politics. @BasicBooks https://t.co/WmLuxau3MB

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“It was Priyanka Kumar’s communion (and conversations) with birds that eventually inspired an awakening and informed her pilgrimage toward reconnection and a renewed sense of belonging.” – Karen Milioto reviews Conversations with Birds. @Milkweed_Books https://t.co/8HHT7aHNEJ

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According to Jonathan Augustine, the church should set the pace for putting salvific reconciliation on the ground. – Jonathan C. Richardson reviews Called to Reconciliation @BakerAcademic https://t.co/U78svyRrHZ

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“Bryan Stevenson’s witness recalled for me a phrase adopted by Eugene Peterson but originally coined by Friedrich Nietzsche, who spoke of patience as a ‘long obedience in the same direction.’” – Samuel Wells @eji_org https://t.co/PbRgn0x2q2

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“Technology will not save. It is why we are in this mess, according to Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen.” – Rachel Hoskins reviews An Inconvenient Apocalypse. @UNDPress https://t.co/Qsz1GIF7HH

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The novel Crossroads asks questions about living authentically, knowing others, and experiencing God through the story of the Hildebrandt family and their small-town church. Joshua B. Grace reviews Jonathan Franzen. https://www.christiancentury.org/review/books/jonathan-franzen-writes-family-feels-familiar