Features
Getting to yes on paid family leave
Pastors, like everyone else, need paid family and medical leave
When my dad killed God
Is God still dead?
My mother said she was pro-life—and worked at Planned Parenthood
A letter to my Black daughter after the fall of Roe
When abortion is mere abstraction
Fantasy and reality after Roe
Books
A prophetic word against neoliberalism
It runs our lives while pretending it isn’t there, says Rodney Clapp. He is having none of it.
Can you like Dostoevsky?
Philosopher and linguist Julia Kristeva asks but does not answer this question about the Russian novelist’s complex work.
Animal midrash
Jewish scholar Laura Duhan-Kaplan opens our eyes to biblical birds, insects, and mammals.
Billy Graham’s transatlantic brand
America’s pastor stepped into a historical moment framed by the Cold War and secularization.
Departments
Good citizenship starts on the playground
Three reasons progressive Christians shouldn’t give up on conversion
My last note from the global church
Toward Hydra (top) and Matisse Chapel, Vence (bottom), by Eleanor Ray
Roe v. Wade was a compromise
News
What if hospice services weren’t just for the dying?
Uyghur activist Nury Turkel to head US religious freedom commission
Kim L. Coleman reelected president of Union of Black Episcopalians
Joel Brown to head Disciples of Christ Historical Society
Indonesian church leader, politician Willem T. P. Simarmata dies at 68
SCOTUS takes divisive course on religious issues
Methodists in Texas, Mexico respond after mass death of migrants
Columbia Theological Seminary students object to firing of Black administrator
