It all began with a 19th-century Dutch theologian. Each year the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary—named for the neo-Calvinist thinker and church leader who also served as prime minister of the Netherlands—awards a Prize for Excel­lence in Reformed Theology and Public Life. This year, the center planned to honor Timothy Kel­ler, the founding pastor of Redeemer Pres­byterian Church in Manhattan, New York, who leads a global urban church planting network.

A brief black and Anabaptist account

I've been hearing stories of bones, in places that appear desolate and hopeless.

I reject complementarian theology—whatever the degree to which it is put into practice, and however nice the husband is about enacting his authority.

For decades, Refaat El-Sayeh, a Coptic Christian merchant in el-Kosheh, Egypt, had wanted to see the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and visit the Church of the Nativity in nearby Beth­lehem. He wanted to feel closer to God.

But for years those pilgrimages were discouraged for Egypt’s Coptic Christians.

“To visit Jerusalem and the holy places was always my wish,” El-Sayeh said. “You feel the hand of God. This is the lifelong dream of every Christian in el-Kosheh.”

We need to sit with stories that resist easy categorization, stories that make us question the official narratives, no matter where we happen to fall in them.

Naming sexism as sexism is not a failure to engage diverse views.

The earthiness of Jesus' cure of the blind man in John 9 recalls all of the ways that God uses basic elements in creation and salvation.

Pilgrim–St. Luke’s United Church of Christ in Buffalo, New York, consulted lawyers before deciding to join the sanctuary movement and offer shelter to undocumented people. When it came time for the vote in the congregation of about 110 people, it was unanimous.

“No one blinked,” said Justo Gonza­lez II, the church’s pastor.

The legality of congregations housing undocumented people to keep them from immigration authorities is unclear.

Lent demands that we use our old eyes in new ways.