Samuel Wells
Choosing solidarity with God
In a sense, I am asking my parishioners the same thing John Wesley asked: Are you going on?
An unfolding drama of awakening
John Haught dismantles the impoverished reasoning of most contemporary cosmology.
Lessons from downsizing my office
As I worked my way through old files and photos, I met with three kinds of sadness.
The Word became relationship
Christianity is, finally, a story in which communication prevails over violence.
Understanding our dependencies
Our cost of living is about far more than the price of essential goods.
Three reasons progressive Christians shouldn’t give up on conversion
Is it the baby or the bathwater?
Unexpected revelation
My conversation partner may have been a prophet—or a quack. My job was simply to listen.
An ode to Daniel Berrigan
Bill Wylie-Kellerman’s patchwork of poetry, prophecy, and prose reads like a modern Gospel.
Two tough questions at the coffee shop
Why are you still in the church? Why bother with Christianity at all?
Pure justice is an idol
Atop the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, Lady Justice presides over a long history of injustices.
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers explore a theology of restorative solidarity
How can a people paralyzed by facing its history move forward?
A father and his dying daughter came to see me. They wanted different things.
Sometimes truth is better than comfort.
Where is my love to go?
Imagine God asking that question. You’ll get an insight into God’s heart.
Leave it with me
He was moving away, the stranger said, and he wanted to leave a box in my care.
Thinking better about autism
Grant Macaskill’s reflection on neurodiversity becomes a stimulus to renewal of faith.
The words I turn to in times of grief and distress
“If it can’t be happy, make it beautiful.”
When the best of times and the worst of times coincide
At St. Martin-in-the-Fields, we’re living through beautiful, nightmarish days.