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Self-evident truths?

What may have been obvious to Thomas Jefferson was probably not obvious to those he enslaved.

by Peter W. Marty
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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

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

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First Words

Self-evident truths?

What may have been obvious to Thomas Jefferson was probably not obvious to those he enslaved.
by Peter W. Marty
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

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First Words

Self-evident truths?

What may have been obvious to Thomas Jefferson was probably not obvious to those he enslaved.
by Peter W. Marty
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
Books

What happened to US politics?

John Ganz explores the gritty political and cultural trends that erupted in the early 1990s and set the stage for the present.
by Benjamin J. Dueholm
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What is the rainbow in Genesis a reminder of?

This year during Pride month, God seems to have a lot of rainbow defenders online. But they aren’t getting the Bible story quite right.
by Brandon Ambrosino

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