Critical Essay
Black women’s faith, black women’s flourishing
Womanist theology proclaims a future beyond the strongholds of racism, sexism, and injustice.
Moral church, amoral society
Maybe Christian Realism is the best option we have today.
Six traits of a pluralist Christian vision of human flourishing
Can Christianity make universal claims without being exclusivist?
What if Jesus came back as a college sophomore?
I posed this question to the students in my sexual ethics class.
Teaching children about racism
Anyone who cries “it’s not fair!” is old enough to learn about racial inequality.
Living water isn’t just a metaphor
On the cross, Jesus needed actual water. No one gave him any.
Ten myths white people believe about racism
It’s not our problem. Education can fix it. Only extremists are racist.
The great drama of the trinitarian hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy”
The beloved song can contain God’s glory no more than the scripture it’s based on.
How Arvo Pärt speaks prayer into a secular world
The composer sees his music as an interplay between suffering and consolation, loss and hope.
European Christian missionaries and their false sense of progress
What does maturity look like? Whiteness is a horrific answer to this question.
In Genesis 1, we’re all royalty
The creation story and the divine right of everybody.
Reading Jael’s story in a women’s prison
What does Judges 4-5 mean to abused women who fought back?
Martin Niemöller before the Nazis finally came for him
The German pastor opposed Hitler—eventually.
The Frontier Interns reenvisioned missions for a postcolonial era
In 1961, Margaret Flory started a new kind of mission program.
Peter Spier’s picture books praise the world
The Holocaust survivor’s response to suffering was to create joyful children’s books.
Who gets to define American Muslim identity?
Muslims have become a totem in the culture war. But we have our own ideas.
Divine absence and the light inaccessible
God isn't just hidden. God hides. Why?
Silence in the face of mystery
God is the encounter we can't control.
Katie Geneva Cannon raised up black women’s voices for the sake of church and world
Cannon created a womanist approach to theology and wove it through her vocation as a pastor, professor, and ethicist.
The unexpected relationship between U.S. evangelicals and Russian Orthodox
Under Trump and Putin, a strange alliance gets stranger.