There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment

Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of evil.

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Coming of age with girl detectives

Like her genre foremothers, the teen sleuth in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder isn’t just solving a crime, she’s figuring out her place in the world.

There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment

Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of evil.

A time to endure

As we approach another Trump presidency, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ecclesiastes.

Politics

A time to endure

As we approach another Trump presidency, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ecclesiastes.

Jesus is Lord. No political leader is.

Maybe the kingdom of God isn’t like a king—maybe it’s like those who resist a king.

Cecil Williams kept his ear to the ground

The longtime pastor of Glide Memorial Church was involved in nearly every major social justice movement in the Bay Area for 60 years.

True crime at the div school

In 1991, religion scholar Ioan Petru Culianu was murdered at the University of Chicago. Was this killing related to his controversial mentor, Mircea Eliade?