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Lincoln, Luther, and the prophet Jeremiah lament our pathos-filled world
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Mary Magdalene is every woman
Marie Howe’s poems present Magdalene in many forms, contemporary and ancient.
Preaching in the promised land
After the Great Migration, some black preachers addressed the issues their white social-gospel counterparts avoided.
Christian Reformed philosopher wins Templeton Prize
Alvin Plantinga, 84, a pioneering advocate for theism as a serious philosophical position within academic circles, has been named the winner of the 2017 Templeton Prize....
Homiletics 'master' dies at age 89
David G. Buttrick, best known as “a master of homiletic design,” died April 22, at age 89. His obituary did not give a cause of death....
Episcopal bishop known for scholarship, advocacy dies at age 81
Frederick Houk Borsch, a bishop, academic, and advocate for social justice, died April 11 at age 81....
More education doesn’t mean less religious commitment among Christians, Pew says
It’s a popular belief: the more educated a person is, the less religious he or she likely will be....
Glorious things of thee are tweeted
I’ve never read Augustine’s City of God cover to cover. So I joined a Twitter experiment to help me get through it.
Wisdom from Augustine, Calvin, and Bonhoeffer on theological education
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Marcella Althaus-Reid recounts her dreams from the afterlife
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
American historians on grit, revolutions, and the topsy-turviness of our era
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
A Deuteronomist redactor meets a recorder of Islamic texts
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
The line between here and there
Two novels explore what happens when wars persist and borders are permeable.
To Arkansas judge who ruled on execution drugs, death penalty protest is a religious act
Wendell Griffen, an Arkansas circuit judge who also serves as a Baptist pastor, defended his participation in a death penalty protest after issuing a court order barring the state from using an exe...
A panel in Chicago on Christian theologies around the state of Israel
Ever since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948—and well before—Christians have argued about the significance of a Jewish state. Does it have theological meaning. If so, what?...
Green lights and privilege
Driving provides a good example of privilege—and our ignorance of it.
Listening with our ears, not our mouths
Twelve-step groups have a rule against crosstalk. It’s a good rule for churches, too.
Take & read: The best new books in Old Testament, theology, and ethics
Our spring books issue includes scholars' recommendations of the best recently published books in their fields:...