Book Briefs: January 5, 1973

An interview with Sunday Bobai Agang about the lessons he learned from his abduction last month.

Three history books on the US slave trade.

An NBA player’s fall resurrects an old anxiety: When does talking about faith become “detrimental conduct”?

Young people are using social media to spread the gospel and denounce the Communist regime.

The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins told me about problems that feel eerily similar to what I see in the church.

Women still dominate church pews, but studies find that devotion among Gen Z women has cooled to levels on par with Gen Z men.

The venerable theological tradition makes war slower, riskier, costlier, and less efficient—and that’s the point.