Amy Frykholm
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?
Weaving new lives at a refugee camp
A group of women in Nashville found hope through Thistle Farms. Now they're taking a social enterprise project to Greece.
Some bright spots in 2017
A year after the election, we decided to look for signs of hope. We found them all around us.
Undocumented immigrants in their full humanity
Lauren Markham documents the bravery of two migrant brothers from El Salvador—and their mistakes, too.
