Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving and Finding the Church
Rachel Held Evans. Thomas Nelson, $16.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-7180-2212-9
Evans's beautiful meditation on what it means to be part of a church community. Starred review.

Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
Jerry Coyne. Viking, $28.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-02653-1
An evolutionary biologist argues that religion is "the most widespread and harmful form of superstition."

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