Genesis 1

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

Many of us are unimpressed when we look in the mirror. But we bear a more important image.

Instead, the Cuban-American writer aims to turn her readers’ gaze outward.

Growing up bilingual primed me to see the gifts offered at Babel and Pentecost.

I like to think Jesus gives the blind man in Mark 8 vision of another kind: to see past the limits of human sight.

Before Satan, there was the biblical sea monster Leviathan.

Trusting in God’s transcendence means acknowledging God’s otherness.

An ancient language offers my nonbinary students something English does not.

What if we did asystematic theology?

The blue-and-green-marbled planet is trying her best to restore stability.

How do I teach my children to care for an ailing world?

Israel’s claim that all people are created in God’s image is strikingly egalitarian.

Will Willimon tells preachers to put aside sentimentality.

What deep desire do my sourdough starter and jade clippings represent?

Let’s not pretend that God hid secret Jesus messages in the Hebrew Bible like Easter eggs.

When we read scripture backward

The poetry of Genesis 1 invites us into a sort of palliative care for the earth.

The poetry of Genesis 1 invites us into a sort of palliative care for the earth.