Features
Mary’s special child and mine
A rich woman who took the Magnificat seriously
Are all Christians adopted?
Gifts you can read
Searching for home in the world’s religions
Neutrality or solidarity?
Voices
Isaac S. Villegas
Joyful life in Bethlehem
At a L’Arche community, I learned something about working and dreaming for peace.
Brian Bantum
No longer Black or White?
Perhaps the neither/nor of Galatians 3 isn’t really about moving beyond specific identities.
Rachel Mann
My struggle with Mary
Can Jesus’ mother be redeemed from the church’s tendency to parcel her up into a patriarchal box and then label it “glory”?
Yolanda Pierce
Settling into the joy of vocation
My life must be lived as a response to something beyond myself and my material needs.
Debie Thomas
Between the Bible and me
The version of Christian history I grew up with hit fast-forward after John’s Revelation and held it until the late 20th century.
Samuel Wells
The emotion standing in the way of peace
Anger can be both healthy and helpful. Rage offers only destruction.
Books
A Job who’s read Job
Poet Michael Shewmaker imagines a suffering Christian in Kilgore, Texas, with three unhelpful friends.
Memoir of a pastor’s husband
Washed Ashore is, at its heart, about a man growing up while raising children.
The rituals we need
Religion scholar Molly Farneth shows how rituals—both civic and religious—change us and the societies we live in.
Letters to Anthropocene kids
Ethicist Larry Rasmussen tells his grandchildren the truth about the earth’s peril—and calls them to embrace its beauty.
Seeking justice for a 19th-century rape survivor
In 1894, Baylor University covered up the rape of a 14-year-old girl on campus. Two Baylor professors make the case against the university.
Burial with dignity
Allison Meier sees cemeteries as great repositories of cultural history—and as spaces deserving of reverence.
Power in the blood
Kate Clancy wants to redefine the discourse around menstruation.
The artistic vision of Jesus
Aaron Rosen finds that Jesus looks at the world the way artists see their subjects.
Departments
The eerie call of John the Baptist
Karin Soderholm’s “See, I am doing a new thing”
Bearing witness to multiple stories
