Features
Saying good-bye to my congregation
When the opioid crisis shows up at our church’s doorstep
How Sister Helen Prejean became a “social justice sister”
What is democratic socialism, and where is it headed?
Books
The problem with specialization
Chess players and golfers might benefit from an early, singular focus. Most people don’t.
The many varieties of anti-Semitism
Deborah Lipstadt shows how anti-Semitic sentiment can spring up where we least expect it.
FDR’s faith
John Woolverton addresses a gap in Roosevelt scholarship with elegance and insight.
The man who volunteered to be imprisoned at Auschwitz
In the face of evil, we tend to keep our heads down. Not Witold Pilecki.
The unmodern Luther
Christine Helmer threatens to dash to pieces the pieties of modern Luther scholarship.
Departments
Our legislators’ silence is a failure of moral courage
Pastors, friendship, and the limits of boundaries
In the Beginning Was the Word, by Sandra Bowden
The Mega podcast draws mega laughs
