American hell
In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became his refrain.
Ten Commandments, zero context
Consent, outrage, and the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk
In praise of unruly children in church
The grace of identity
Books
Poems that help us breathe together
A mother-son road trip across the divide
A Hebrew scholar rekindles her love for classic Bible stories
Fighting climate change with Black soul power
In This Issue
Poems that help us breathe together
American hell
A mother-son road trip across the divide
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Poems that help us breathe together
American hell
Ten Commandments, zero context
A mother-son road trip across the divide
Voices
Phil Christman
In praise of unruly children in church
Sometimes they’re the only sign of life amid our solemn boringness.
Samuel Wells
The grace of identity
We tend to think of identity as either fixed or chosen. What if it’s bestowed and revealed, relational and dynamic?
Kelly Brown Douglas
Violence is multidimensional
In order to stop it, we have to understand it.
Brian Bantum
The substance of small things I’ve seen
Hope and change mean something different to me now than they did in 2009.
Debie Thomas
Progressive Christians should read the Bible
It’s a rich, multivocal library. And we can’t afford to be ignorant of a book that’s being weaponized against vulnerable people.
Alejandra Oliva
The call of a remnant prairie
I’ve seen artists enchanted and haunted by the prairie, their work changed by spending time in the grasses.
Politics
American hell
Ten Commandments, zero context
A mother-son road trip across the divide