Features
The fear of being filmed
Tyler, the Creator’s album Don’t Tap the Glass suggests that our phone cameras pose a threat to our embodied human freedom.
The missing head of Pancho Villa
What does the stolen skull of a Mexican revolutionary have to do with my friend and me, living in Colorado a century after his death?
The blasphemy of national Christianity
When push comes to shove, for nationalist Christians, ethnicity comes first.
We name the holy
For me, pastor and poet are the same vocation.
A growing landscape of religious trauma
The conversation around abuse in religious contexts is intense, varied, and getting bigger.
Confession: I don’t want Trump to go to heaven
Hearing him admit that he might not be first in line at the pearly gates was surreal.
My artificial chaplains
While recovering from a hiking accident, I posed the same theological question to multiple AI spiritual counselors.
The priesthood of all chatbots?
I’m sure there are good uses for AI in our churches. Prayer and preaching aren’t among them.
Post-truth Christians
I was taught to stay on guard against the left’s postmodernism. Now it’s the right that seems unwilling to look truth directly in the face.
Shiny happy confrontations
The second season of Shiny Happy People reminds me of my year as a Teen Mania intern—and our efforts to become the standard of holiness for the world.
Rehearsing for the revolution
The No Kings protests made their politics real to everyone who watched—including the state.
How I became religiously multiple
I’m on a personal journey into Buddhist–Christian belonging.
Tenderness under pressure
I want to be a gentle parent. In our culture, this often feels out of reach.
How politicians use the Bible
Scholar Hannah Strømmen provides a helpful guide for navigating our scripture-saturated political discourse.
When Superman deconstructs
Many have criticized the new film’s twist on its hero’s origin story. I found it powerfully resonant.
Katy Perry and the wealthy women of space
Greed has no end, and the end of greed is resistance to every limitation—including the limitation of gravity.