In these short, accessible essays, Alford writes about the personal «Why I Pray,» as well as the political «Simone Weil and Donald Trump.» He makes some difficult theologians, such as Karl Barth and Soren Kierkegaard, accessible, while not hesitating to criticize them. Alford argues the genius of Christianity is in God making himself vulnerable so as to know what it is to be human; otherwise, God stands at a terrible distance from humanity. From this perspective, Christianity is about the...
