"Midnight Mass" is not your ordinary horror show. This Netflix series offers theological reflections on life and death, forgiveness, sin, and love. It also shows how Christian ritual and scripture can be co-opted for a darker cause. And yes, it's creepy as hell.

"Choosing Black liberation is to choose a different life, one that collects, little by little, habits, economics, community, and politics that are for the mutual thriving of our world."

In this month's book notes we highlight two works of fiction and a nonfiction reflection on the body.

Christine Valters Paintner's poem prepares us to enter Advent with contemplation on the waxing and waning of the moon, the dark night and the promise of stars.