From the Editors

Voting is important. It isn’t sacred.

Casting your ballot means voicing a preference—not a moral conviction or deep, spiritual alignment.

Features

What does solidarity mean at the border?

It’s not about electoral politics—not when both major parties embrace the policies that are oppressing people.
by Dorothee Benz
Features

Black Christians’ competing solidarities with Israelis and Palestinians

Divergent biblical interpretations and shared histories lead to different answers to the same question: Who are “the oppressed”?
by Roger Baumann
Features

Clarissa and her flowers

Reading The Hours in my husband’s hospital room, I was stunned by the novel’s incarnational imagery.
by Caroline Langston
Features

Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.
by Wendell Berry

Books

The unsettling surprise of God’s mercy

Father-son duo Richard and Christopher Hays set aside their old positions in favor of a more expansive view of biblically faithful queer inclusion.
by Keri Ladner

A poet’s quarrel with herself

Danielle Chapman’s lustrous memoir is at its best when she holds her family’s Confederate history up to the light.
by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

For love of Dante

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell writes, in 39 poems, a charmingly backhanded love letter to the Italian poet.
by Roger Ferlo

Piercing the veil

Zach Williams’s stories of everyday life are propelled by strange turns of events, like a dad discovering his son’s sixth toe in the bath.
by Joshua B. Grace

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Books

The unsettling surprise of God’s mercy

Father-son duo Richard and Christopher Hays set aside their old positions in favor of a more expansive view of biblically faithful queer inclusion.
by Keri Ladner
Features

Wisdom from Augustine in an election year

Our so-called Christian politics have been captivated by the liturgies of the earthly city rather than the city of God.
by James K. A. Smith
From the Editors

Voting is important. It isn’t sacred.

Casting your ballot means voicing a preference—not a moral conviction or deep, spiritual alignment.

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From the Editors

Voting is important. It isn’t sacred.

Casting your ballot means voicing a preference—not a moral conviction or deep, spiritual alignment.
Features

Wisdom from Augustine in an election year

Our so-called Christian politics have been captivated by the liturgies of the earthly city rather than the city of God.
by James K. A. Smith
Books

The unsettling surprise of God’s mercy

Father-son duo Richard and Christopher Hays set aside their old positions in favor of a more expansive view of biblically faithful queer inclusion.
by Keri Ladner
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Being salt

When I got into cooking, it changed the way I understand Jesus’ statement, “You are the salt of the earth.”

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Features

Wisdom from Augustine in an election year

Our so-called Christian politics have been captivated by the liturgies of the earthly city rather than the city of God.
by James K. A. Smith
From the Editors

Voting is important. It isn’t sacred.

Casting your ballot means voicing a preference—not a moral conviction or deep, spiritual alignment.
Features

What does solidarity mean at the border?

It’s not about electoral politics—not when both major parties embrace the policies that are oppressing people.
by Dorothee Benz
Features

Black Christians’ competing solidarities with Israelis and Palestinians

Divergent biblical interpretations and shared histories lead to different answers to the same question: Who are “the oppressed”?
by Roger Baumann

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