Features
OncoMouse and me
A church politics of nondomination
Hair like wool
Ukrainian military chaplains learn pluralism on the job
A land dispute in the Old City
Making room in the UMC for the Spirit’s work
What’s behind the grad student strike at Boston University?
Other Jewish voices
Voices
Yolanda Pierce
Phoning home
God, like an attuned parent, hears not just the words we say but also the hidden parts of our hearts.
Philip Jenkins
Praying the hours with W. H. Auden
The poet’s Horae Canonicae sequence is an underappreciated spiritual classic.
Alejandra Oliva
Feeling God in a modernist cathedral-in-progress
While other churches have filled me with wonder, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia brought tears to my eyes.
Samuel Wells
What does it mean to be an inclusive church?
Being a community means welcoming those with diverse views, not cocooning oneself with like-minded people.
Jonathan Tran
What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean?
Could it really be all the different things people say it is?
Melissa Florer-Bixler
A pulpit without a context
I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.
Books
How roads hurt animals
Ben Goldfarb’s book on road ecology has expanded my understanding of what makes a livable city—and world.
The souls of Jamel Brinkley’s stories
Brinkley has a storyteller’s gift for revealing characters and the connections between them.
Understanding Czesław Miłosz
Eva Hoffman, a fellow exile from Poland, writes about the Nobel-winning author like no one else could.
Jerry Falwell’s toxic legacy
Keri Ladner digs into the Moral Majority founder’s archives to show how his fantastical interpretations of world politics seeded the ground for QAnon.
Treasures of our ancestors
Rabbi Debra Robbins creates a spiritual practice around the seven psalms of the Jewish morning liturgy.
Puerto Rico as both object and subject of mission
José David Rodríguez provides a decolonial history of Lutheranism in the world’s oldest colony.
Leading and lamenting with Nehemiah
Brenda Salter McNeil draws on her community organizing experience to find fresh lessons from the biblical rebuilder.
Consciousness all the way down
If consciousness is universal and the universe is fine-tuned for life, Philip Goff argues, then there must be a cosmic purpose.
Departments
Self-evident truths?
A crushing lack of humanity
