‘Faith Signals’ (2024) by Patrick Jacobs parses the various ways in which faith and contemporary life are ‘entangled’ and asks hard questions about the place and purpose of faith. In it, Jacobs argues that faith is too often seen as a private matter when, in reality, it informs personal identity, constructs communities and is core to the cultural stories through which people organize and understand the world. Faith is also central to the moral codes and motivations by which people make decisions, act in the world, formulate demands for social change, and spur social movements to improve the lives of others.4
