Features
Beauty and how to see it
A sacred migration to a changing future
What Gen Z knows about the church
How much is too much?
What the border wall does
A feast day for the whole church
My dying best friend’s wedding
Voices
Julian DeShazier
Confessions of a snob
My snob origin story begins in the typical way: with passion.
Alejandra Oliva
Lessons from the group chat
What makes these friendships so special—and the distance so hard—is the deep sense that we are called to be witnesses to each other’s lives.
Peter Choi
A desert gospel in San Francisco
In Mark’s wilderness and in my city, life emerges in unexpected ways.
Stephanie Saldaña
Disarm me
Christian de Chergé’s prayer, from a time of civil war, has become Pope Leo’s prayer—and mine.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Citizenship by fiat
Political belonging isn’t naturally grounded in land, ancestry, or anything else. It is based on decisions that governments make and continually revise.
Books
Something resembling God
Adam Hughes explores the far side of certainty and what happens when belief begins to dissolve.
A memoir that cannot find the words
Journalist Lauren Markham finds herself searching for language adequate for grief on a planetary scale.
Facing the world with Edith Stein
How do we get through the darkest of nights? For Stein, the answer is clear and unwavering: We uphold God’s truth, always.
Creativity as alchemy for the world
A collection of lectures-turned-essays urges us to imagine a world beyond empire.
Whose antiquity?
Curtis Dozier argues that White nationalists often don’t even have to distort Greco-Roman history in order to misuse it.
The church is disappearing from the middle
Religious identity in the US now follows partisan affiliation, says demographer Ryan Burge. But congregations could still be places where that sorting gets undone.
A Jewish exploration of Christian theology
Alan Brill offers both scrutiny of our doctrines and a word of correction to his fellow Jews.
The philosophers vs. the mystics?
Jamie Smith’s talents are rare and his insights clear. But his rejection of either/or thinking is so stark that it creates a false binary of its own.
Paul among his neighbors
A new anthology situates the epistles within the full religious texture of the ancient Mediterranean—gods, magic, and all.
Departments
Charged words, an active God, and more reader feedback
All we may become
Reforming higher ed by punishing students
