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Climate catastrophe is here

Swaths of US land are becoming uninsurable, even uninhabitable.

Voices

Praying the hours with W. H. Auden

The poet’s Horae Canonicae sequence is an underappreciated spiritual classic.

by Philip Jenkins

Voices

Feeling God in a modernist cathedral-in-progress

While other churches have filled me with wonder, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia brought tears to my eyes.

by Alejandra Oliva

Features

Moltmann the teacher

Studying theology with him offered me new possibilities for justice and abundant life.

by Nancy Bedford

Features

Hair like wool

Both Daniel and Revelation compare God’s hair to wool. White enslavers used to say the same thing about hair like mine.

by Melissa Burlock

Books

Understanding Czesław Miłosz

Eva Hoffman, a fellow exile from Poland, writes about the Nobel-winning author like no one else could.

by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

Jerry Falwell’s toxic legacy

Keri Ladner digs into the Moral Majority founder’s archives to show how his fantastical interpretations of world politics seeded the ground for QAnon.

by David P. Gushee

Treasures of our ancestors

Rabbi Debra Robbins creates a spiritual practice around the seven psalms of the Jewish morning liturgy.

by Emily Soloff

Puerto Rico as both object and subject of mission

José David Rodríguez provides a decolonial history of Lutheranism in the world’s oldest colony.

by Clint Schnekloth

In This Issue

Books

Understanding Czesław Miłosz

Eva Hoffman, a fellow exile from Poland, writes about the Nobel-winning author like no one else could.

by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

In the Lectionary

July 7, Ordinary 14B (Mark 6:1–13)

The disciples want to know who Jesus is. The people from his hometown do not.

by Marilyn McEntyre

Voices

Praying the hours with W. H. Auden

The poet’s Horae Canonicae sequence is an underappreciated spiritual classic.

by Philip Jenkins

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Understanding Czesław Miłosz

Eva Hoffman, a fellow exile from Poland, writes about the Nobel-winning author like no one else could.

by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

News

Mary Patterson, preserver of Church of God in Christ history, dies at 83

by Adelle M. Banks

From the Editors

Climate catastrophe is here

Swaths of US land are becoming uninsurable, even uninhabitable.

In the Lectionary

July 7, Ordinary 14B (Mark 6:1–13)

The disciples want to know who Jesus is. The people from his hometown do not.

by Marilyn McEntyre

Voices

Philip Jenkins

Praying the hours with W. H. Auden

The poet’s Horae Canonicae sequence is an underappreciated spiritual classic.

Alejandra Oliva

Feeling God in a modernist cathedral-in-progress

While other churches have filled me with wonder, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia brought tears to my eyes.

Samuel Wells

What does it mean to be an inclusive church?

Being a community means welcoming those with diverse views, not cocooning oneself with like-minded people.

Jonathan Tran

What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean?

Could it really be all the different things people say it is?

Rachel Mann

Facing a world on fire

The contemplative life is about getting closer to reality, not retreating from it.

Brian Bantum

What’s special about a church building?

How many buildings do we pass by in our daily lives where we could simply walk in, sit down, and participate?

Politics

Books

Jerry Falwell’s toxic legacy

Keri Ladner digs into the Moral Majority founder’s archives to show how his fantastical interpretations of world politics seeded the ground for QAnon.

by David P. Gushee