From Origen to Barth: eleven theologians you should know.

How to see his presence in the ordinary.

Two sharply differing accounts of his last years.

The Confederacy's internal civil war.

Protestant dissent and the habit of migration.

Rita Dove and Louis Simpson.

Looking more carefully at Calvinist suspicion of fiction and poetry.

Rejecting "the seductive notion that feminism's work is done."

Niebuhr, Graham, and Tillich on sin and human limitation.

A report from Calvin College.

Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney.

The first full-fledged biography of Muriel Spark.

Re-reading Amanda Cross.

A bold one-author summation of the whole American past.

Two new books on the president, with an emphasis on racial issues.

Overcorrection: Evangelicals and Sports in Victorian Britain

Portraits of the Adams women: Louisa and Abigail.

The place of Charles Wesley in early Methodism.

Heroes and heaters.

Reading for life in women's prisons.