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Kirsten SandersBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025
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
There are a number of striking overlaps in the critiques of modernity put forth by Paul Kingsnorth and Christopher Lasch.
Rhys LavertyBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025
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 to Agnes Howard, Rachel Aldhizer, and Nadya Williams's reflections on her new book 'The Dignity of Dependence.'
Nadya WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025
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
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
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
Christman's provocative title makes some good arguments, but is burdened by sloppy argumentation and poor engagement with its sources.
Kyle WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025
Their ability to describe material problems is immense, yet Klein and Thompson routinely struggle to arrive at deeper political wisdom.
Justin HawkinsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025
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
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
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.