Tiffany Eberle Kriner

Rags of Light

Arts & Literature

“Brian Walsh knows that the highest order of interpretation is responsive making. In Rags of Light, Walsh not only recognizes and argues for Leonard Cohen’s prophetic and priestly role, but makes Cohen’s music a usable liturgy—one profoundly helpful in our cultural moment. I emerge from its pages in song and prayer—ready to make my way through a landscape of both wonder and ruin—and not unaccompanied.”

Reading Black Books

Theology

“No one knows better or shows better than Atcho how twentieth-century African American literature is equipment for a better, truer orthodoxy. Reading Black Books offers brilliant and accessible theological readings of this literature that function—and feel—like the pastoral care we desperately need. Faithful to the works on their own terms, Atcho recognizes both the unflinchingly critical theological challenges and unfailingly constructive theological contributions of these matchless, essential works. His readings bear life-giving theological fruit that nourishes readers toward life together, daring to do so because the literature dares and the gospel declares! For generations, these books have been bread in the wilderness, a table prepared in the presence of enemies. Atcho’s work helps readers in these desolate, polarized days to find anew in African American literature the welcome table. This is the book—and its hope the hope in Christ—that I have been hungry for as a reader and as a teacher.”