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The war for Africa’s holy land
Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, is in turmoil.
Job’s search for a just court (Job 23:1-9, 16-17)
He yearns to be able to lay his case before God.
Judaism for the World is the work of a master
Readers will relish the collected thoughts of Arthur Green, a historian and practitioner at the top of his powers.
The sounds of my mother’s typewriter
Lying in bed and listening, I heard devotion. And creativity. And mystery.
Karl Barth’s affair with Charlotte von Kirschbaum wasn’t the only major conflict behind his theology
Christiane Tietz explores them all in the first full-length biography since Eberhard Busch’s in 1976.
Episode 11: Breaking barriers | A conversation with Davelyn Hill
“When I devalue you, I lose myself."
Take & Read: American religious history
Five new books about myths and narratives that shape religion in the United States
Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five new books about the lives and faith of Christians around the world
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five new books about the practice of ministry after our recent calamities
The holy simplicity of artist John August Swanson
His art is like the man who created it: joyful, loving, and gently curious.
The beauty of representation in children’s books
“I was a child who loved to read. But I didn’t see a lot of characters that looked like me.”
October 31, Ordinary 31B (Ruth 1:1-18)
The story of two grieving and economically insecure women is the hinge of the entire covenant history.
Miriam Toews explores religious trauma through the voice of a nine-year-old
Swiv isn’t an unreliable narrator, but she’s living in a world that feels unreliable.
For Haitian migrants, temporary protected status is not enough
TPS is a short-term solution to an enduring problem rooted in centuries of Haitian history.
Kate Bowler finds good news in hard truths
No Cure for Being Human offers a model for negotiating suffering with honesty.
Cooking my way through Africa’s east coast
Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen offer a rare thing: an English-language cookbook of African food that isn’t from Ethiopia.
Pope acknowledges right-wing critics
Pope Francis has acknowledged his increasingly vocal conservative critics, saying their “nasty comments” were the work of the devil....
Muslim groups boycott Hilton over bulldozed Uyghur mosque
A coalition of more than 40 American Muslim groups is leading a global boycott of Hilton Hotels over its involvement in a hotel project in Xinjiang, China, where a Uyghur mosque was bulldozed to ma...
Women making strides in Black denominations amid hesitancy
Women in Black Baptist circles knew that it was only a matter of time before one of their own was named to lead a major church organization....