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God’s promise to repay (Joel 2:23–32)
It is so tender that God would say God owes us one.
Returning to a book that shaped my imagination
Is there a word for nostalgia tinged with trauma?
WCC head meets with Patriarch Kirill
The acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches met this week with Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox Church...
Epistles of hope for our time
Randal Jelks and Shaka Senghor both write with realism but not fatalism.
Interfaith coalition launches bus tour against Christian nationalism
A coalition of Pennsylvania faith leaders and activists have launched a multi-faith and multi-racial bus tour to oppose Christ...
A reminder of what’s worth saving
Elizabeth Weinberg’s call to climate action highlights the interconnection of all things.
Former director accused of stealing $1.4 million from Pennsylvania clergy death benefit fund
The former administrator of the Clergy Assurance Fund, a nonprofit insurance corporation that has served the families of Episc...
October 23, Ordinary 30C (Joel 2:23–32)
In Joel I encounter the God who has counted what I’ve lost and promised to pay it back.
Religious freedom group asks for UN inquiry into Iran's crackdown
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom called on the Biden administration Friday to establish a...
Jonathan Lee Walton named next president of Princeton Seminary
Jonathan Lee Walton, an academician, preacher, and administrator who has served on the faculties of Wake Forest and Harvard di...
The Presbyterian missionary who became a revolutionary in Iran
“Howard Baskerville believed there was no separation of religion and politics,” says Reza Aslan, “that democracy was a divine gift.”
A fresh translation of Nelly Sachs’s later poems
For Sachs, flight is multivalent: her flight from the Nazis, any refugee’s flight from oppression, God’s flight from God.
Award-winning Mahalia Jackson film comes to Hulu
A new movie about legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson is now streaming on Hulu. ...
Poll: More Protestant pastors say the economy is hurting their churches
A new survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors finds that half are concerned the economy is hurting their churches....
Tribes ask US Supreme Court to hear case over sacred land in Oregon
Members of two Native American tribes are calling on the federal government to restore features of a sacred site that was bull...
Traveling to find home
Tom Fate’s essays present an ethically complicated journey of discovery.
Texas church hosts services for synagogue damaged by arson
When a synagogue in Austin, Texas, was left without a place to hold its high holy days services after its building was damaged...
WCC begins work to bring HIV response back to forefront
Through a grant from UNAIDS, the World Council of Church’s Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy program will host ...