New & Noteworthy: March For Our Lives, Performance Art, and More

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

No More Death

In the 98-minute documentary Us Kids, survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., organize the monumental March for Our Lives against gun violence while they honor their dead and take back democracy. Impact Partners.

Flesh Bears History

Natalie Wigg-Stevenson expands our theological imagination with Transgressive Devotion: Theology as Performance Art. Rooted in Baptist, Catholic, Anglican, feminist, and queer theological traditions, Wigg-Stevenson explores the emotional depths artists access by crossing boundaries in hopes of coming closer to God. SCM Press.

Egalitarian Faith

In The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth , Beth Allison Barr illuminates how women have been erased from the Bible by male translators, explains how those decisions have affected women for centuries, and recounts her own struggles against Christian patriarchy. Brazos Press.

This appears in the June 2021 issue of Sojourners