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Vashti McKenzie named interim head of National Council of Churches
Bishop Vashti McKenzie has been named interim president and general secretary of the National Council of Churches, the ecumenical organization announced on May 10....
Shuly Rubin Schwartz inaugurated as chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary
On May 17, Shuly Rubin Schwartz was officially inaugurated as the first female chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary, the flagship school of Conservative Judaism....
John Swinton appointed as Queen's chaplain
John Swinton, one of Scotland’s most influential theologians, will become one of the Queen of England’s royal chaplains....
Unexpected revelation
My conversation partner may have been a prophet—or a quack. My job was simply to listen.
Patching up the text (Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21)
The reading from Revelation skips over lines that will likely put off many hearers.
Who’s doing our dirty work?
Eyal Press looks inside the daily lives of prison workers, drone warriors, and meatpackers.
Uvalde school shooting: faith leaders call for reform of gun laws
With the news of 19 children and two others killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, religious leaders from across ...
For better or for worse, the church is keeping Haiti afloat
In the absence of strong political leadership, someone has to fill the void.
June 19, Ordinary 12C (1 Kings 19:1-15a)
God never intended for Elijah to carry the full weight of challenging the halls of power.
A grand vision for a crumbling world (Ephesians 1:15-23)
Christ has brought the entire cosmos into submission? Frankly, it doesn’t look that way.
The unexpected gift of missional friendship
I was a United Methodist pastor. He was a campus minister with Cru.
Does Catholic higher ed have to sell its soul?
A truly Catholic university, says James Heft, steers a course between secularization and insularity.
Hope for the climate (Acts 16:9-15; Psalm 67; Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5; John 5:1-9)
Given the environmental future we’re facing, we would do well to address it with resurrection hope.
Ukraine’s sleepless children
A failed high school science experiment increased my empathy for those who can’t sleep.
Dethroning the canonical Paul
Cavan Concannon believes that the apostle’s writings belong in the latrine.
The mass shooting in Buffalo was an attack on the image of God
And it was enabled by social structures of permission.
The most important American Old Testament scholar of the last century is Norman Gottwald
In the life of early Israel, Gottwald found a God of economic justice.
June 12, Trinity Sunday C (John 16:12-15)
We are not the first to face complex global crises and wonder, “How can we possibly come back from this?”
Is it possible to tell the complete history of libraries?
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen try in their impressive but Eurocentric volume.