Features
The Christian lady preacher and the queer Jewish poet
The all-knowing cloud and the cloud of unknowing
The wisdom of dreamwork
Can we build our own future?
What is a church’s money for?
My childhood congregation was a progressive Christian dream come true
Climate catastrophe is here
Moltmann the teacher
What is the rainbow in Genesis a reminder of?
Voices
Isaac S. Villegas
Present together
When I was a chaplain intern working with people with disabilities, there was one man I visited every Sunday right after worship.
Yolanda Pierce
The spirituality of waiting
If God is present in the planting and the harvest, then God is present in the time when nothing seems to be happening.
Brian Bantum
Cycling my way to peace
Turning the pedals over again and again, I began to feel the fullness of who I am and how I was made.
Rachel Mann
Virtuous friendship
Prudence and constancy might not sound like much fun, but they create the load-bearing relationships communities need to flourish.
Heidi Neumark
The dessert of life?
A treat can be nice, but it’s hardly daily bread.
Julian DeShazier
The great man theory is poison for the church
The problem isn’t just that it exists. It’s that so many ministers fall for it.
Books
A harrowing novel about Christian boarding schools
In Margaret Verble’s Stealing, a Cherokee girl finds what she needs to survive an evil system.
In an age of isolation, what does it mean to belong?
Educator and activist Kim Samuel calls readers to recognize the gift (and necessity) of one another.
Another reason Rome fell
When the Antonine Plague hit in 165, says historian Colin Elliott, the Roman Empire was already well on its way to failure.
Everything from nothing
Theologian Brian Robinette argues that the beleaguered doctrine of creatio ex nihilo is both important and practical.
A permanent foreigner
Grace Loh Prasad’s memoir shows how the death of parents, for a child of immigrants, represents the vanishing of entire worlds.
The shared root of antisemitism and White supremacy
Historian Magda Teter identifies an endemic rot at the center of Christianity.
Deep insights for Christians—from Leviticus
Gary Anderson thinks that the answer to what ails contemporary Christian theology lies tucked away in the Torah’s tabernacle narrative.
Dress and redress
In a blend of memoir and scholarly inquiry, Megan Sweeney challenges readers to take clothing seriously.
Departments
Working with conscience
