Phil Christman

How Do You Baptize a Whale?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The Silicon Valley-led assault on the specialness of being human—embodied in technologies that bid to replace human workers while offering only an insulting facsimile of human speech—is tempting many of us toward an embrace of old-fashioned human exceptionalism. Andrew Kadel’s winsome and theologically informed treatise reminds us why we can’t solve our cultural problems by retreating into our usual Master of Creation pose. This man’s project is to love both God and dogs, and to help the rest of us to better do the same.”

In Thought, Word, and Seed

Arts & Literature

“A farm, writes Tiffany Kriner, is a ‘field full of powers and forces,’ and so are her paragraphs. In this beautifully written book, she turns the clichés of an evangelical childhood into a robust adult faith, the fragments of American history into a story of repentance and renewal, and a beat-up bit of land into a life-giving farm. She looks at so many things—at owls; at the writings of Chesnutt, Whitman, and Baldwin; at armed, possibly dangerous neighbors—with a generous, transforming attention.”