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When the belly of a whale sounds good
Jonah wants God to hate his enemy as much as he does.
Letting Augustine be Augustine
How to capture the urgency of Confessions? New translations by Sarah Ruden and Peter Constantine offer very different approaches.
July 29, Ordinary 17B (John 6:1-21)
At that deserted spot on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus could've used a grocery store.
A hospital chaplain's double vision
I routinely saw patients who were racist, sexist, demanding, and cruel. They were also afraid, exhausted, in pain, and helpless.
Theodore McCarrick charged with sexual abuse
Catholic officials required the retired archbishop to stop ministry activities. McCarrick maintained his innocence.
At The People’s Supper, strangers explore common ground
The idea is disarmingly simple: all you need is a dinner table.
Steven Pinker’s absolute faith in reason
"This is not a book of Enlightenolatry," writes Pinker. But it is.
How Christian Trump voters chose fear over compassion
Fear is a terrific uniter, but it's a strange way to carve out a Christian life.
Conversations with chaos (Mark 4:35-41)
The wind and water operate at a guttural level within these fishermen disciples.
If Trump were a liberal, would liberal Christians resist him?
White evangelical political loyalties and their lessons for the rest of us
How a doctor finds hope at a Jerusalem hospital
Pediatric oncologist Elisha Waldman explores a city's complexities as he reflects on his patients' spiritual needs.
Our practices keep our commitments alive
To resist the kind of society we don't want, we have to cultivate the kind we do.
Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri and Cindy Kohlmann become PCUSA comoderators
The "bold, unapologetic women" will share the second most important position in the 1.4 million–member denomination for two years.
American evangelicalism and the politics of whiteness
If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.
July 22, Ordinary 16B (Mark 6:30-34, 53-56)
The apostles are on fire in this Gospel passage. I don't always get along with people like that.
Nigerian interfaith couple perseveres in the city where Boko Haram began
Aisha and Vincent Anibueze, a Muslim and a Christian, have found ways to thrive despite violence in Maiduguri.
How Trump won the 2016 fear sweepstakes
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Ben Carson understood evangelical anxieties and played to them. But the strategy backfired.
Helping white people talk about racism—with each other
Carolyn Helsel's guidebook is insightful, sensitive, and deeply practical.
How Jeff Sessions reads Romans 13 and how my Mennonite Sunday school class does
In the hands of coercive power, the Bible is a weapon.
Beverly Lapp will be vice president, academic dean of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
The school's board of directors praised her “exceptional background in pedagogy.”