Features
What comes after clergy self-care?
Ministry and other difficult jobs
The wisdom of not knowing
Our unseen companions
The slow work of dialogue
In Gaza, water is life
Voices
Debie Thomas
A deeper legacy than hard work
The psalms of ascent press hard against the norms of our bootstrap culture.
Julian DeShazier
Why I came back to the lectionary
My job as a preacher isn’t to change the game. It’s to run the plays well.
Heidi Neumark
Bearing the scars
Years ago, at a barbecue in Argentina, I realized I was the only person present who wasn’t a survivor of torture.
Jonathan Tran
God or basketball?
Which one has a greater hold on my heart? Let’s take a look.
Brian Bantum
Can inclusive churches grow and thrive?
When my spouse’s church became more affirming, the major givers left.
Philip Jenkins
William Guthrie’s weird Christianity
The rector of St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery brought the church into relationship with the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1920s.
Books
A magical world of daily bread
In Luci Shaw’s new collection of poems, ordinary objects trespass their boundaries.
Astrolabes, sundials, candles, and clocks
Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm explore the medieval preoccupation with time.
Overshadowed by the Twelve
Holly Carey turns up the brightness on the most faithful disciples in the gospels: the women.
Naps against capitalism
How can rest be a political act? Poet-theologian Tricia Hersey returns to this question often.
White Christian nationalism’s heritage of extremism
Bradley Onishi brings his scholarship and his personal experience together to analyze where the church went wrong.
Seeking the Divine in the secular age
The modern mystics profiled in Bernard McGinn’s new book don’t experience ecstatic visions, supernatural miracles, or paranormal phenomena.
Edwards for all of us
George Marsden’s new book returns to the old project of making Jonathan Edwards modern.
Reading scripture through the experience of disability
Julia Watts Belser sees in the Torah a God who is in love with the creative possibilities of difference.
Departments
Linda Ekstrom’s Pursed (upper left) and Mary (upper right, detail below)
In praise of church musicians
Too old to be president?
