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Tania Tetlow to be first woman president of Fordham University
Tania Tetlow has been unanimously elected the next president of Fordham University. Tetlow will be the first woman and the first layperson to lead the 181-year-old Jesuit institution....
Joseph’s whole story (Genesis 45:3-11, 15)
To preach on only a portion of this passage is to do it a disservice.
What does it mean to be a Christian plumber?
Most of us have nouns in common; it’s the adjectives that divide us.
Season One preview
Season One: the desert, a traditional place in the history of Christianity to begin searches.
What happens when Mormon women are called to ordained ministry?
Talking with five former LDS members who left to go to seminary
Episode 14: The sacred Black feminine | A conversation with Christena Cleveland
The author of God is a Black Woman went in search of the Black Madonnas.
Rescuing faith from scientific imperialism
Kara Slade’s scathing yet incisive volume abounds with examples of modern hubris.
A new lectionary that centers women
“If the gospel isn’t good news to the women in the passage, is it still good news?”
March 13, Lent 2C (Luke 13:31-35)
Is the fox cunning and clever, or is it wily and untrustworthy?
Evolutionary science meets evangelical faith
How teachers are helping students accept science without losing their religion
Catholic acts of mercy during the AIDS crisis
Michael O’Loughlin paints a vivid portrait of the complex, compassionate, and sometimes daring ways individual Catholics responded.
Super tree powers (Jeremiah 17:5-10; Psalm 1)
Trees symbolize a holy channel that faithfully stewards the power of God into the world.
The Dominican friars whose library is transforming Islamic studies
How a rare books collection in Cairo expanded into a center for scholarship and interfaith conversation
Joseph de Maistre’s magnum opus is still perplexing after 200 years
Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg has often been dismissed as propaganda. It isn’t.
The Chair and the collapse of the humanities
Who, exactly, should preside over meaning-making?
Station Eleven and the purpose of art
With the world as they knew it gone, the characters remake the world from the resources they carry inside them.
March 6, Lent 1C (Luke 4:1-13)
The wilderness can be a frightening landscape that whispers from the shadows, “You’re all alone.”
Why should we care about what’s happening to the Uyghurs?
Chamath Palihapitiya’s question is worth taking seriously.
March 2, Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
Some years the message of Ash Wednesday feels more tender than others.