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In the Fearless Dialogues movement, people try to truly see each other
Gregory Ellison II's book evokes the sort of honest conversations he has been convening.
My church changed when ICE took one of our own
Shouting against injustice is harder than lamenting it from afar. But it gets easier.
Daniel Lehmann to be first Jewish president of Graduate Theological Union
The consortium in Berkeley, California, includes research centers and seminaries of multiple faith traditions—but has been previously led by Christians.
Beth LaNeel Tanner becomes dean at New Brunswick Theological Seminary
She will continue as professor of Old Testament at the school, one of two Reformed Church in America seminaries.
Having faith in God is better than being certain about God
We don't need arguments from the pulpit. We need living water.
God's love, our bodies
Turned toward one another in worship, we experience the grace of God's gaze.
Herod’s pursuit of power (Mark 6:14-29)
According to Josephus, Herod Antipas desperately wanted to be called “king.”
A separated family's long road to reunification
A Guatemalan asylum seeker has an attorney and a team of supporters. It was still hard to get her children back.
The Supreme Court finally rejected the Japanese internment—in the course of upholding Trump's Muslim travel ban
The decision says that Korematsu v. United States was wrong. Does it matter?
In college, I changed my name to Rachel. It didn't stick.
Struggling with whether to abandon my Korean name made me think about the queerness in all of our identities.
Fidon Mwombeki to lead All Africa Conference of Churches
Mwombeki, a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, will head the largest association of Protestant, Orthodox, and indigenous churches in Africa.
Can I ban "remember when"?
Questions that begin this way rarely have to do with the mission.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's theological trouble
The Jesuit scientist questioned whether humans are descended from Adam. It got him exiled.
A book about ethics—and nearly everything else
John Stackhouse's real-world ethics primer covers just about every subject, but it leaves out an important one.
CAR priests killed amid faith leaders advocating for an end to the conflict
Firmin Gbagoua was the sixth Catholic priest to be killed. Fighters claim that religion is fueling the conflict—but religious leaders point to economic causes.
Church's Nativity scene protests family detention
Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis has statues of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph behind a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.
August 12, Ordinary 19B (John 6:35, 41-51)
People must have gasped when Jesus opened his mouth and said 'I am.'
A playwright's quest for a missing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin file
The Jesuit archives in Rome didn't know if they had the document. But they said I could come look for it.
8 ways to recruit, engage, and keep volunteers
Churches need volunteers. Those volunteers need something in return.