In the looksmaxxing community, physical transformation is treated as a moral imperative, one obtainable by persistent self-denial and the pursuit of an ideal form. To some, the ethos resembles a kind of inverted asceticism: a life structured around sacrifice and perfection, not to a higher power, but to the self.

In Jesus and Justice, co-authors John Dominic Crossan and Michael Okinczyc-Cruz combine lifetimes of study, reflection, organizing and service to provide us a framework for analysis and action. 

Throughout the course of her career, Judy Blume has sold tens of millions of books and "rewired the English speaking world's expectations for literature for young people," according to a new biography.