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April 2025

Volume 142, Issue #4
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Features

The certainty summit

In 1978, a who’s who of conservative evangelical leaders met in Chicago to draft a statement on biblical inerrancy. It would change the course of church and state.
by Liz Charlotte Grant

Sanctuary in houses of worship has always been tenuous

It’s a practice marked by promise and difficulty—both in the Bible and today.
by Michael Woolf
Interviews

Defending dignity at the National Cathedral

“We’re constantly saying what we’re against,” says Martin Dickinson, a lay leader at the cathedral’s sanctuary ministry, “and that’s necessary. But what are we for? Migration with Dignity gives us a framework.”
Interview by Alejandra Oliva

Voices

Illustration of Kelly Brown Douglas

Kelly Brown Douglas

Violence is multidimensional

In order to stop it, we have to understand it.

Brian Bantum illustration

Brian Bantum

The substance of small things I’ve seen

Hope and change mean something different to me now than they did in 2009.

Books

How do we help children weave a healthy faith?

Meredith Miller uses the metaphor of a spiderweb to offer Christian parents and caregivers a new paradigm.

by Morganne Talley

Salman Rushdie returns to the scene

In Knife, the novelist goes back to Chautauqua, where he was nearly killed in a 2022 attack.

by Beth Kissileff

A matter of love, not certainty

In Carl Hughes’s hands, Kierkegaard helps to distinguish Luther’s desire for certainty from his appreciation for mystery.

by David Newheiser
Book cover image of Baptizing America

Did the mainline church pave the way for Christian nationalism?

Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood plumb history to show how the Protestant mainline has intertwined church and state interests.
by Stephen Healey

Departments

From the Editors

Why are Trump and Musk blocking the church’s work with refugees?

An administration that presents itself as the champion of beleaguered Christians is instead spreading lies about them.
Screen Time

Nosferatu and the horror of enlightenment

Robert Eggers’s film reminds us that much of what presents itself as common sense is just a contingent arrangement, one form of folklore instead of another.
by Kathryn Reklis

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