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The Porter’s Gate’s songs give voice to the realities of 2020
A collective of Black, White, and Latino church songwriters makes liturgical music for resistance.
How I hope to approach the days following the election
Last time I woke early, opened the curtains, sat down to pray, and started crying.
Trump’s refugee policy is a miserable moral failure
So is our nation’s long history of choosing economic success over global equity, safety, and wellbeing.
Nigerian Christian leaders respond to police brutality protests
After a video of an officer killing a man was released in early October, thousands of Nigerians have taken to the streets to protest decades of police brutality in the country....
Plot thickens over origins of pope’s civil union endorsement
In mid-October, questions swirled about the origins of Pope Francis’s bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was neve...
Could the next American Girl doll be a refugee?
As an American child growing up in Belgium and France, Laura Laurie mostly learned about American history from the popular American Girl books....
Iliff School of Theology reckons with grisly past
For 80 years, a book about Christianity bound in the tanned skin of a murdered Lenape Indian was displayed in a glass case outside the library at the Iliff School of Theology, a United Methodist se...
Some Hindus question anti-caste policy at Brandeis University
Last December, when Brandeis University announced a first-of-its-kind policy banning discrimination based on caste, administrators hoped other institutions would follow suit and adopt similar poli...
Wilton Gregory to become first Black American cardinal in Catholic Church
Washington, DC, archbishop Wilton Gregory is set to become the first Black American cardinal in the Catholic Church, a historic appointment that comes months after nationwide demonstrations against...
Nuns on the Bus founder Simone Campbell announces retirement
Simone Campbell, the Roman Catholic sister made famous by her Nuns on the Bus tours and her support for the Affordable Care Act, announced on October 20 that she will step down early next year a...
Evangelist Ravi Zacharias posthumously accused of sexual abuse
Christianity Today magazine reported that three women who worked as massage therapists at spas co-owned by the late Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias claimed that he repeatedly masturbated and ...
Christians have struggled to understand Judaism on its own terms
John Phelan’s book helps us unlearn what we thought we knew.
Unmoored (All Saints A; 1 John 3:1-3)
We are living in a season of immense upheavel.
The COVID-19 pandemic shows that Trump simply isn’t governing
And it isn’t partisan to say that a president who can’t or won’t do his job should be replaced by one who can and will.
The woman who haunts the book of Job
In Diane Glancy’s poetry and prose, the cries of Native Americans echo the laments of Job’s wife.
Our masks have unmasked us
There is a parable here of half-hidden faces, wounds, and a lack of love.
Two years after my husband survived the Tree of Life shooting, I’m still figuring out how to tell the story
How do you construct a narrative in the aftermath of communal trauma?
A liberal daughter discusses White privilege with her conservative dad
What would happen if we listened to each other in love?
November 22, RoC (Matthew 25:31-46)
On Christ the King Sunday, let’s disentangle Jesus from the idols of our time.