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How do we help children weave a healthy faith?
Meredith Miller uses the metaphor of a spiderweb to offer Christian parents and caregivers a new paradigm.
US hands over Tibetan Buddhism relics to China
The recent transfer of cultural artifacts, including several Tibetan Buddhist relics, from the US to China may help advance the Chinese government’s efforts to distort Tibet’s history and appropria...
A look at the various lawsuits faith groups have filed against the Trump administration
President Donald Trump remains locked in at least five major lawsuits filed by religious groups during the first two months of his new administration, showing tensions between the White House and t...
The Trump administration’s disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil is chilling
Democracies don’t deport people for thought crimes, not even when they say them out loud.
Salman Rushdie returns to the scene
In Knife, the novelist goes back to Chautauqua, where he was nearly killed in a 2022 attack.
March 23, Lent 3C (Luke 13:1-9)
Who can resist the gardener’s advice to dig around deeply and replenish the soil?
When nice guys are dangerous
Two recent buzzy, twisty thrillers put gender dynamics at the center of the drama.
Heavenly minded (Philippians 3:17–4:1)
Our prevailing practical wisdom to focus on the here and now cuts sharply against the grain of Paul’s advice.
The certainty summit
In 1978, a who’s who of conservative evangelical leaders met in Chicago to draft a statement on biblical inerrancy. It would change the course of church and state.
Arrest of Palestinian Columbia activist divides US Jews
The arrest of a former Columbia University graduate student who had a leading role on campus criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza has sparked sharp divisions within the US Jewish community....
PCUSA adds sexual orientation, gender identity to constitutionally protected classes
Many are hailing presbyteries’ approval of Amendment 24-A, which enshrines, for the first time, recognition of LGBTQIA+ people in the ...
A matter of love, not certainty
In Carl Hughes’s hands, Kierkegaard helps to distinguish Luther’s desire for certainty from his appreciation for mystery.