
weekend reads
“On the mean streets of modern life, I regret to inform you that the standard for knowledge about Nicaea has been set by serial fabulist Dan Brown,” writes theology professor Fred Sanders. The new book The Story of the Trinity: Controversy, Crisis, and the Creation of the Nicene Creed, is a welcome alternative—engaging, accessible, under 200 pages long, and available in paperback for less than $20.
It’s the kind of highly readable book you “might actually hand to a friend,” recommends Sanders. The Story of the Trinity, written for a popular audience, remains “resourceful and responsible,” a “Bible-based, gospel-focused, basic introduction to the Nicene Creed and its theology.”
These kinds of introductions are all the more important in light of a new State of Theology survey. “Many of the survey answers from evangelicals in 2025 reveal an alarming lack of biblical literacy, as well as a tendency to hold contradictory beliefs without seeming to recognize the incongruity,” the report reads. For example, when it comes to the Trinity, despite “professing belief in ‘one true God in three persons,’ over half of evangelicals say the Spirit isn’t a personal being.”
weekend listen
Are we summoning demons through our machines? Is the internet a giant Ouija board? Is AI not just an invention but an invocation?
Russell Moore sits down with Paul Kingsnorth—novelist, essayist, and former pagan turned Orthodox Christian—to discuss his searing new book Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity.
“A question I like to ask myself is ‘If I was the Devil, would I invent the internet? Would it be a good tool to take humans away from God? Would it be a good tool to take us away from a prayerful mindset? Would it be a good tool to set us against each other?” | Listen here, or watch on YouTube.
editors’ picks
Kate Lucky, senior editor, culture & engagement: I have never read Charles Dickens (!), and am addressing that issue this fall by making my way through A Tale of Two Cities. I bought my copy as an overly ambitious tween at a Barnes & Noble “classics” kiosk, and it’s followed me for a decade to several states and bookshelves. Unread: until now!
Kate Shellnutt, editorial director, news: I’m listening to “Nothing I Hold on to” by Will Reagan and United Pursuit on repeat.
Kristy Etheridge, editor: I recently downloaded BePresent. They got me with an Instagram ad, which is ironic, as the goal of the app is to help you slash your screen time in half. If you try to break the limits you set, it triggers a prompt like “Do you really want to open that, or do you want to be present?” It’s usually a no-brainer.
prayers of the people
- For the pastor rescuing people from Japan’s “suicide cliff.”
- For the churches that shovel mud and make soup after natural disasters—and for the young “nones” who just might join in their work.
- Thank you, Lord, for baseball! (Including the banana variety.)
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The Christian story shows us that grace often comes from where we least expect. In this issue, we look at the corners of God’s kingdom and chronicle in often-overlooked people, places, and things the possibility of God’s redemptive work. We introduce the Compassion Awards, which report on seven nonprofits doing good work in their communities. We look at the spirituality underneath gambling, the ways contemporary Christian music was instrumental in one historian’s conversion, and the steady witness of what may be Wendell Berry’s last novel. All these pieces remind us that there is no person or place too small for God’s gracious and cataclysmic reversal.
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