New & Noteworthy: Artificial Wombs, ‘Authentic Unity,’ and More

Three culture recommendations from our editors.
The image shows a couple sitting dow, wearing headphones, looking at a large, electronic egg. There is a woman standing behind them, watching.
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Futuristic Dilemmas

In the film The Pod Generation, parents-to-be pay top dollar to gestate a fetus in an artificial womb outside the body, a commodification that more equally distributes the responsibility of pregnancy between males and females. But every technological advancement brings new moral quandaries. Scope Pictures

 

Authentic Unity

Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging redefines “belonging.” Author Ben McBride, a faith leader and peacemaker, warns against a shallow belonging that allows racism and inequality to thrive in the name of unity. “Belonging can’t be held ransom for assimilation.” Broadleaf

Faith and Science

From denying evolutionary theory to rejecting COVID-19 vaccines, American evangelicals have a fraught history with science. In The God of Monkey Science: People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World, science educator and evangelical Janet Kellogg Ray teaches how to love neighbors and scientific breakthroughs. Eerdmans

This appears in the December 2023 issue of Sojourners