Voices

What can the church offer trans people right now?

Baptism and Eucharist should rework all of our ideas about identity.

by Rachel Mann
News

California congregations vow to help neighbors even as their buildings are lost to fires

by Bob Smietana
Features

Sacred waters, melting ice

Baptismal rituals in glacial lands hold memories of the past—and wisdom for facing climate change.
by Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir
Voices

Forerunners like John

Not everyone who makes a difference in the world gets the credit—or seeks it.
by Samuel Wells
Voices

Church on the run

If I want kinship with my Anabaptist ancestors, I know where to look: in prison.
by Melissa Florer-Bixler

Books

The brokenness of Christology

Sarah Coakley explores ruptures on the cross, in the Eucharist, in Spirit-filled people, and between Judaism and the church.
by Lauren F. Winner

The women who would be war heroes

Kristin Hannah’s novel is based on military nurses’ firsthand accounts of their experiences in Vietnam.
by Grant Wacker

When climate is a tool of empire

David Livingstone explores the dubious history of overclaiming or distorting the role of climate.
by Philip Jenkins

Pages soaked in mystery

Rebecca McCarthy traces Norman Maclean’s poetic sensibilities from his University of Chicago classroom to A River Runs Through It.
by Richard Lischer

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Voices

What can the church offer trans people right now?

Baptism and Eucharist should rework all of our ideas about identity.
by Rachel Mann
Features

Sacred waters, melting ice

Baptismal rituals in glacial lands hold memories of the past—and wisdom for facing climate change.
by Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir
Features

From seminary classroom to encampment

Students protesting the war in Gaza are asking deep questions about colonialism, antisemitism, and Christian Zionism.
by Emilee Walker-Cornetta
From the Editors

What now?

A few thoughts on how we’ll get through another Trump term

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