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Episode 45: Double Indemnity
Adam and Matt talk with Kathryn Reklis about shadows, duplicity, and Billy Wilder’s 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity.
Radical orthodoxy steps into the pulpit
The movement's plucky proponents have been known for their philosophy more than their preaching. Until now.
Loren Mead, founder of the Alban Institute, dies at age 88
The author of The Once and Future Church was part of the shift to looking at congregations in their contexts—not just the church in general.
Ugandan faith leaders weigh idea of accepting Israel's African refugees
Israel's government has offered financial incentives for thousands of asylum seekers to leave the country voluntarily—threatening to detain or deport them if they didn't.
Kendrick Lamar, public theologian
On Damn, the hip-hop artist draws connections between guns, gangs, Wall Street corruption, and the 2016 election. It's a bold indictment of collective sin.
A life worth living, but for how long?
In their new novels, Dara Horn and Chloe Benjamin play with themes of mortality and free will.
Spiritual freedom in concrete form (Acts 1:15-17, 21-26)
In Acts, the gospel takes on organizational structure.
Talking about racism on a college bus trip
The tension was palpable. Then a white student stood up and said something I've never forgotten.
Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, cranky nonfiction
Robinson's essays are sometimes tedious. Yet they provide glimpses of the capacious faith undergirding her novels.
June 10, Ordinary 10B (Mark 3:20-35)
When Jesus names the need for deep social change, people think he's possessed.
Essential reading: Fiction
We asked some of our favorite novelists and poets to tell us about three recent works of fiction that speak to them in a deep way.
Christian Wiman and the poetry of joy
In this anthology of poems selected by Wiman, joy comes in modest and unlikely guise.
Faith after ascension (Ephesians 1:15-23)
We hope and pray that God will meet us, even if God feels absent to us.
In historic votes, Lutherans elect two African American women bishops
Patricia A. Davenport and Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld will each lead a regional body in the predominantly white mainline Protestant denomination.
Black Church Food Security Network brings fresh food to Baltimore
A group of Baltimore congregations is connecting with black farmers to promote healthy eating and economic empowerment.
The U.S. needs to accept more refugees
There's one clear way the world can help the Syrian people. The Trump administration is doing the opposite.
Miguel De La Torre’s ethic of hopelessness
De La Torre has little use for hope in a God who only seems to show up for Christians, never for their victims.
An American childhood in Haiti
Apricot Irving writes with love—and hurt—about her father's misplaced desire to be a savior to others.