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State Department to keep anti-Semitism envoy but scrap many others
Several offices that handle religious freedom issues will be consolidated.
October 1, Ordinary 26A (Matthew 21:23-32)
Love has come into the world and is walking even now.
Mystery and ministry in Grantchester and beyond
Detectives, like pastors, examine the unknowable to reveal the knowable.
Philosophy and parody in a murder mystery
Laurent Binet's latest novel is at once a lecture, a detective story, and an exploration of the limits of fiction.
Clergy march in Washington against white supremacy
The protest focusing on hate crimes, mass incarceration, and discrimination received larger support after Charlottesville.
Opposing the Nashville Statement
There are a lot of people who don’t know how a Christian can believe in the Bible, be gay, and celebrate their LGBTQ friends.
Marilynne Robinson's vision for democracy
Critics are correct that Robinson doesn't offer an alternative to the Christian Right. But she never claimed to.
Episode 26: Saved!
Adam and Matt talk with Bromleigh McCleneghan about sex, community, and purity culture after watching the movie Saved! (2004).
How can we fell the demons of hatred?
Narratives of fear, domination, and greed abound. But there's a better story.
The personal is political—and universal—for Carter Heyward
Heyward was one of the first women priests. But her particular experiences aren't the heart of her memoir.
The myth of white innocence in Detroit
Kathryn Bigelow's film lays bare our assumptions about guilt and race.
Aid groups seek funds as Sudan crisis worsens
The number of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda has reached 1 million.
World’s oldest man—an Auschwitz survivor—dies at 113
Yisrael Kristal, an Orthodox Jew, celebrated his bar mitzvah in Israel last October, 100 years late.
Member of Trump's evangelical advisory board resigns
A. R. Bernard, lead pastor of a 33,000-member church in Brooklyn, New York, cited "conflict in values" with the administration.
Conscience means "knowing together"
In worship, our moral compass is recalibrated—with the help of others.
Counterprotesters overwhelm free speech rally in Boston
The people who attended a rally at the Boston Common did not bear Nazi symbols or racist slogans. But the tens of thousands of counterprotesters saw their intention as defending hate speech.
Who was Joseph Oppenheimer, and why was he killed?
Yair Mintzker doesn't know. He's more interested in why other historians keep trying to write a 19th-century novel about the 18th-century case.
September 24, Ordinary 25A (Philippians 1:21–30; Matthew 20:1–16)
The work of advancing the kingdom doesn't translate into fair compensation as we understand it.
Is popularity the goal?
Jesus wants us to be likable—but more importantly, he wants us to love.