Features
How and what to think
A dustpan, a desert, and a search for moral order
Learning to see the planet as gift
The academy needs better theologies of cooking
Three kitchen theologians in their own words
The consolation of studying theology
From seminary classroom to encampment
Voices
Debie Thomas
God’s maternal love
I wonder if what I felt, feared, and learned as a young mother mirrors what God experiences when she tries to feed us.
Brian Bantum
God of breath and gravity
“Who is God?” Today, God is the rising and falling of my chest.
Isaac S. Villegas
Emotional communism
More than ever, we need the common life we can create for each other, a shared life for the benefit of all.
Kelly Brown Douglas
What does it mean to be a Christian in these times?
We have a cross at the center of our faith, and we need to start acting like it.
Rachel Mann
What can the church offer trans people right now?
Baptism and Eucharist should rework all of our ideas about identity.
Books
Unlocking the gates of Genesis through poetry
Jessica Jacobs breathes new life into ancient voices.
The religious practice of community organizing
Aaron Stauffer offers a nuanced study of the radical social gospel and broad-based organizing.
The magic of Amy Leach’s world
The essayist playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of life that she found later.
Elie Wiesel’s defiant faith
Journalist Joseph Berger documents the writer’s work, his activism, and the belief in God that he never fully renounced.
How a boy band star from Boston became the beloved Imam Tay
Taymullah Abdur-Rahman demonstrates that friendship across religious difference can elicit personal and social transformation.
The heart of embodied theopoetics beats for liberation
A new edited volume seeks not to replace traditional, White male–focused theopoetics so much as to reshape the subject altogether.
Hope as an act of love
Theologian Norman Wirzba’s account of hope is compelling precisely because it is so grounded in harsh reality.
The legacy of Black activist teachers
Almeda Wright’s impeccably researched profiles explore the connections between religion, education, and social action.
The brokenness of Christology
Sarah Coakley explores ruptures on the cross, in the Eucharist, in Spirit-filled people, and between Judaism and the church.
Departments
The privilege of ministry
Competing masculinities in the dojo
