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New and Noteworthy: Combatants for Peace, ‘You Can Trust a God with Scars,’ and More

Three culture recommendations from our editors.
There is Another Way, Reconsider

Combatants for Peace

The film There is Another Way profiles former Israeli and Palestinian combatants working toward collective liberation, showing the courage required to break cycles of hatred. “We are strong. We are fierce. But we will not meet them with their violence,” says one activist. Reconsider

The Grit of Incarnation

You Can Trust a God with Scars: Faith (and Doubt) for the Searching Soul presents a Christianity that embraces doubt and a God who understands suffering intimately. Jared Ayers uses art, scripture, music, and literature to explore “the dazzling mystery ... that the Maker stooped to become what had been made.” NavPress

Justice Can Prevail

Geared toward readers ages 8-12, A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez, by María Dolores Águila, is a lyrical telling of the first successful school desegregation case, Alvarez v. Lemon Grove, two decades before Brown v. Board of Education. Roaring Brook Press

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