New & Noteworthy: March 2020

Three culture recommendations from our editors. 
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‘Our Help Is In the Name’

Canada-based The Forest Archive drops a worship album celebrating the Songs of Ascents in Psalms 120 to 134. Mixing strings and percussion with energy and earthiness, A Garden Green is folk music that invites listeners to a deeper story of unfettered joy and resistance to injustice. theforestarchive.bandcamp.com.

Power and Love

In Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis, 21 leaders offer their wisdom about the spiritual practice of climate activism. Countering a narrative of despair, Rooted and Rising has the potential to lead readers into meaningful action. Rowman & Littlefield.

Called to Freedom

Women in the book of Exodus found many creative ways to seek justice and defy empire. Kelley Nikondeha’s Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us about Freedom encourages readers to reflect on an ancient story of liberation and explore how we might be liberators in our own time. Eerdmans.

This appears in the March 2020 issue of Sojourners