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Religion & Spirituality January 2026 |
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Anti-Greed Gospel by Malcom FoleyMalcolm Foley explores the connections between greed and racism in The Anti-Greed Gospel, showing how the desire for power and money often causes violence and exploitation. Foley reviews the history of racial violence in the United States and connects the killings of modern-day Black Americans to the history of lynching in America. He helps the contemporary church wrestle with the questions racial violence brings up. Readers will walk away with a better understanding of how they can resist greed that exploits others, love their neighbor more completely, and build communities of deep solidarity, anti-violence, and truth-telling.
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Do Not Judge Anyone
by Isaac Slater
Too often Christianity has been hijacked by the superego and the good news of grace has been compromised by fear and the rationalization of violence. In Do Not Judge Anyone, Cistercian monk Isaac Slater reflects on the desert fathers’ teachings and practice of not judging with a focus on contemporary life. Interweaving sources from East and West, ancient and modern, Slater finds profound points of contact between the first monks and modern figures. Slater offers a radical, refreshing, and deeply hopeful vision of the gospel for the twenty-first century. Through captivating and sometimes enigmatic sayings and stories, Slater offers a balm for today's polarized environment.
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Everything Is Never Enough
by Bobby Jamieson
Does it feel like you should be happy, and want to be happy, but somehow you just cannot be happy? One way to be unhappy is not getting what you most want. Another way is to get all you could possibly want, only to discover that everything is not enough. In this thoughtful exploration of Ecclesiastes, Bobby Jamieson teaches how to experience joy no matter the circumstances, puts Ecclesiastes into dialogue with profoundly insightful critics of modernity, and helps dismantle false hopes, ultimately freeing readers to stop grasping at broken promises and start receiving life as a gift of God’s grace.
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Lost Synagogues of Europe
by Andrea Strongwater
Lost Synagogues of Europe chronicles and recreates in vivid color paintings the life stories of nearly 80 majestic, yet destroyed European synagogues. Each one is a testament to the thousands of synagogues decimated during the Third Reich and early Communism. After World War II only about few buildings remained standing, and fewer are still in use as synagogues. This exquisite and significant work of historical preservation collects, organizes, and documents their stories.
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The Solstice Yearbook
by Victoria Harrison
The sun powers all life on earth, and its strength grows and diminishes, creating the seasons and impacting moods and energies. The Solstice Yearbook shows readers how to understand and follow the cycles of the sun in order to align their bodies and minds with nature’s rhythm. Drawing on ancient traditions, folklore, and rituals this seasonal guidebook is packed with ideas for celebrating the Solar year, from midnight Solstice rituals to Midwinter fires and Equinox rebalancing tips.
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Story Work
by GG Renee Hill
Humans absorb the world around them through stories. That is how they make sense of their surroundings, communities, and themselves. There is often truth and validity in these stories, but these stories are not an end-all, be-all. Instead, they are all part of a larger, ongoing, unfinished narrative, one that must be continually refreshed, expanded, and contemplated in order to stay soft and open-hearted. Through essays and prompting questions, GG Renee Hill invites readers to breathe new life into the stories they carry. She invites readers to the transformative practice of creative self-discovery through storytelling.
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You Can, If You Want To
by James Alison
What if Christianity was far more liberating than the culture wars suggest? Can the conflict concerning Christianity and homosexuality be viewed from a more interpretative lens? James Alison, a Catholic priest who is also a gay man, has been wrestling with the matter for over forty years. This luminous and rigorous book dismantles the fear-based binaries which have dominated conversations in the Church. Striving to address potential concerns about accepting LGBTQ+ individuals within the church, James draws on scripture, tradition, and his lived experience to form a broader understanding of faith and humanity.
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