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Kirsten SandersBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Religion's Own Worst Enemy

If the purpose of religion is to make people moral, then the moral failures of religious people disprove religion and render it obsolete.

Jeff BilbroBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Imagining Life Outside the Machine

There are a number of striking overlaps in the critiques of modernity put forth by Paul Kingsnorth and Christopher Lasch.

Rhys LavertyBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

After the Machine

Could a critical mass of people opt out of the machine and pursue more humane ways of life? In principal, certainly. In practice? That remains to be seen.

Leah Libresco SargeantBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Leah Sargeant Replies

Leah Sargeant replies to Agnes Howard, Rachel Aldhizer, and Nadya Williams's reflections on her new book 'The Dignity of Dependence.'

Nadya WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

What Has War to Do with Motherhood?

We cannot take the value and the beauty of this vulnerability for granted. Sargeant’s book makes no sense outside the Judaeo-Christian worldview.

Rachel Roth AldhizerBook ReviewsFormationJournalFall 2025

The Presence of Christ in Our Dependence

Dependence has a language. Need has a way of speaking to us and calling for help, even when it cannot do so with words.

Agnes HowardBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Dependent in the First Place

Americans prefer to think of dependence as a preparatory step before we turn into what we really are—autonomous self-makers. Sargeant skewers this folly.

Bonnie KristianBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Leftists Should Be Christian

Christman's provocative title makes some good arguments, but is burdened by sloppy argumentation and poor engagement with its sources.

Kyle WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Tall Tales of Abundance

Their ability to describe material problems is immense, yet Klein and Thompson routinely struggle to arrive at deeper political wisdom.

Justin HawkinsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Joys That Only Saints Can Know

Leppin's biography of St Francis admirably complicates the life of the great saint, but sometimes in ways that still look a lot like debunking.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Child of These Tears

Suffering—bodily and spiritual—is the thread connecting all persons and events in this book. How do we face great suffering that upheaves our lives?

Kirsten SandersBook Reviews

The Magpie No. 1: Inventing Purity Culture

Shopping for a homecoming dress for my daughter made me long for the restrictions of purity culture, which at least left me with my own boundaries intact.