Amy Frykholm
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s short stories reveal the insanity and violence of our society
Evoking the murders of unarmed black men, this collection is meant to appall us.
A physicist explores mystical experience
Alan Lightman asks great questions about science and religion. His answers are sometimes frustrating.
A white, southern pastor takes a hard look at the sin of racism
“It’s not that Southerners don’t get racial issues. We just don’t get them right.”
From Bethlehem to Jericho by foot
As we hiked the Abraham Path, I realized that every step was inescapably political.
On patrol at the border
When Francisco Cantú took a job as a border patrol agent, he didn’t consider the cost to his humanity.
The relics in Jerusalem didn’t move me. Why?
For some reason, I couldn’t find the holy in the holy rocks everyone else was venerating.
Writing about faith in the golden age of television
“If you want to make a room full of liberal, compassionate people turn on you, talk about God in an unironic way.”
Tastes of God’s kingdom at our church’s community meal
The people come, bringing something of themselves. Then they leave.
Thomas Keating permanently changed the way I pray
Centering prayer persists when I am believing or disbelieving, when I feel “close” to God or far away.
Two ways of being Christian and pro-choice
Is abortion only the lesser of evils, or can it be a moral good?
A filmmaker turns up the volume on peacemaking work
“Peace is not resting. Peace is loud.”
Why Roxane Gay resists the conversion narrative
Sexual violence doesn't always allow its survivors to claim redemption.
What we talk about when we talk about sex
The intersection of race and sexuality is the ur-story of American culture.
At The People’s Supper, strangers explore common ground
The idea is disarmingly simple: all you need is a dinner table.
Richard was always asking for more than I could give
He came to our community meal for years before I realized that I was asking something of him, too.
Your pastor isn’t as unhealthy as you might think
The clergy are all right—at least, as all right as anyone else is.
A fictional world where abortion and IVF are illegal—and the women who live there
Leni Zumas's novel makes a political point. More importantly, it cultivates empathy.
A climate scientist talks—respectfully—to climate-change skeptics
“My message is that you don’t have to change who you are to care about this issue.”
A stitched-together community
One day Bill didn't show up at the church, so we went to find him.
The history and myths that made Russia
How did Russia's longstanding sense of grievance morph into a civil religion?