Features
The quiet Christian witness of A Rocha Canada
Nonbinary gender and the diverse beauty of creation
5 do's and 5 don'ts for using your church building well
Why are the “good guys with guns” so sure they're good?
Books
Did Christianity destroy classical pagan culture?
Catherine Nixey is right: the early Christians were violently destructive. So were the Romans, the Persians, and the plagues that swept across the ancient world.
Democrats and Republicans both follow liberalism's playbook
Both parties advocate freeing individuals to pursue self-interested goals, argues Patrick Deneen. This has fractured society.
Clarence Jordan's radical experiment in following Jesus
What makes a person able to see evil and stand against it without fear?
A fictional world where abortion and IVF are illegal—and the women who live there
Leni Zumas's novel makes a political point. More importantly, it cultivates empathy.
Kate Bowler faces off against cancer and bad theology
Bowler’s memoir honestly confronts the pervasive idea that we get what we deserve.
Departments
Remembering the things that give life
Ezekiel and the Valley of Life, fresco, ca. 239
A pastor's job isn't to make bad things seem better
Slow Burn and Babylon Berlin offer historical lenses on our troubling present
Why this gun-control movement might be different
News
Southern California mosques welcome rising number of Latino Muslims
Groups are meeting growing interest through efforts such as Friday prayers in Spanish and #TacoTrucksatEveryMosque events to break Ramadan fasting.
Linda Brown Thompson, school desegregation pioneer, dies at age 75
The lifelong AME Church member was at the center of the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.
Frank Page, Southern Baptist head, resigns over 'a personal failing'
Page, 65, was known for bridging divides in the 15-million-member denomination.
Pakistani court requires citizens to identify religious affiliation
Survey: Protestant pastors see increased church diversity
Pastors are more likely to say their churches are made up of multiple racial and ethnic groups than they were four years ago.
Turkey displays a new level of religious nationalism in Syria campaign
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has likened Turkey's army to Ottoman troops in WWI, calling them martyrs fighting for their religion.
Megachurch founder Bill Hybels denies reports of sexual misconduct
Church elders and an outside firm investigated and cleared Hybels. But recently several former employees went public with their accounts—and doubts about the investigations.
Lectionary
May 20, Pentecost B (John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15)
May 13, Easter 7B (John 17:6-19)
