What is a church’s money for?
As a pastor, I am both grateful for our congregation’s healthy endowment and distressed by it. I don’t think I’m alone.
Working with conscience
Empathy for the demagogue
Books
A permanent foreigner
The shared root of antisemitism and White supremacy
Deep insights for Christians—from Leviticus
Dress and redress
In This Issue
Working with conscience
A permanent foreigner
What is a church’s money for?
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Delighting in the story (John 6:1-21)
Working with conscience
A permanent foreigner
Voices
Julian DeShazier
The great man theory is poison for the church
The problem isn’t just that it exists. It’s that so many ministers fall for it.
Yolanda Pierce
Phoning home
God, like an attuned parent, hears not just the words we say but also the hidden parts of our hearts.
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?
Politics
Empathy for the demagogue
The shared root of antisemitism and White supremacy
How roads hurt animals
