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The days are coming (Jeremiah 33:14-16)
We are surrounded by wastelands. God promises new life.
Episode 44: Biblical scholar and theologian Peter Enns, author of Curveball
A conversation with Peter Enns about the book of Jonah, quantum physics, God, and more
Music for the apocalypse
Growing up, I never understood the book of Revelation. Then I started listening to Black Sabbath.
Evangelical reckonings
Randall Balmer, David Gushee, and Tim Alberta diagnose what’s gone wrong.
The tropes that birth the hero
It is admirable that Bonhoeffer endeavors to highlight Black life. But one must be careful that the Black life of one’s representation is not playing in the dark of caricatured Black people.
December 1, Advent 1C (Luke 21:25-36)
If our faith cannot help us escape tribulations, then what should we do when we face them?
Advent in the squatters’ camp
As a human rights worker during Argentina’s Dirty War, I learned to read the signs.
Barbara Holmes taught us to see our cosmic ties
A visionary of Black liberation, she broke open what it means to be a contemplative.
Audacious visions (Revelation 1:4b-8)
Harriet Tubman’s visions seemed, to her, to be glimpses of glory.
Keep swinging for the fences
My decades of church life have been full of the stuff one might expect from a place that promises God and only sometimes delivers.
What if your plants could hear you?
Science writer Zoë Schlanger investigates the edges of botany research—and uncovers deep philosophical questions.
The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.
Tony Campolo, sociologist and famed Red Letter Christian, dies at 89
Tony Campolo, an American Baptist minister and sociologist who spent decades trying to convince evangelicals and other Christians that their faith should motivate them to address social ills like p...
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.
Creation justice project helps Episcopal churches find efforts that are right for them
A congregation that wants to be engaged in creation care has many things it can do—pollinator gardens, solar panels, energy audits, legislative advocacy, recycling, composting—but Rachel Field, par...
A time to endure
As we approach another Trump presidency, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ecclesiastes.
What White Christians did to Black Charlotte
Greg Jarrell explores how one congregation in his city took advantage of racist urban renewal policies.
Divine silence
A Quaker colleague taught me how stillness exercises agency, how it acts upon worshipers.