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How a Christian bloc helped oust Brazil's president
Evangelical politicians were among the most vocal opponents of Dilma Rouseff and her party's social programs.
Methodist agency leaves NYC as other institutions face rising property costs
When Betty Thompson arrived in New York City in 1950, she soon got a job with the Methodist Board of Missions on Fifth Avenue in a stretch she called “Protestant Rome.”...
Vulnerability and readability
Do women have to trade intimacy for trust in ways that men do not? If we do, should we stop? Are we playing into stereotypes? Are we inviting people to take us less seriously?
Episode 35: Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
Matt talks with Cornelius Plantinga Jr., the former president of Calvin Theological Seminary, about miracles, the collapse of the sacred/secular distinction when “every square inch of creation belongs to Jesus Christ,” and why preachers should read more fiction.
This is why we give thanks
Expressing gratitude to God only makes sense if you do it even on the bad days.
Intersectionality, by Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge
How we define ourselves and others is complex because we hold multiple identities simultaneously....
Make today great again
Instead of glorifying the past, what if we treated the present as precious?
November 20, Reign of Christ: Luke 23:33-43
Luke's text for Reign of Christ Sunday is a searing critique of leaders who are powerful but not vulnerable.
Harry Potter, holy writ
People read J. K. Rowling’s books as if they were scripture. What if they were?
Margaret Ahmed creates jobs, hope in Nigeria
When Margaret Ahmed walks around her hometown of Jos, Nigeria, observing seeds on the ground or plastic bags littering the streets, she sees potential merchandise....
Amid tensions, Doris Smith is pastor and police
She’s a plainclothes cop, but on Sunday mornings she wears a uniform: her clergy robe and stole....
Yisrael Kristal, world's oldest man, finally gets a bar mitzvah
Yisrael Kristal, 113, considered by Guinness World Records to be the world’s oldest man, celebrated his bar mitzvah 100 years after Jewish boys traditionally mark this rite of passage....
The peaceful transfer of power
Walking through the battleground of Manassas, Virginia, conjures up visions of what happens when mutual respect breaks down in society.
Political religion, sanctified politics
It's odd the way this volume deals with Barack Obama. It's a shame it has to deal with David Barton at all.
Are the Maori separate and equal?
Integration is one solution to a history of oppression. New Zealand's churches tried another.
Before Hillary Clinton, there was Rosalynn Carter
Clinton’s critics are recycling language from the 1990s. The roots of that critique are even older.
To the glory of God
In borrowing rituals from religion, Alain de Botton says deeper truth doesn't matter. Is that false?