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’Tis the season for royal Christmas movies
What exactly is it about the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that says “tiara romance”?
The Rittenhouse verdict and the twisting of natural law
If a protest for equal rights is a threatening provocation, then answering that threat with violence is merely self-defense.
Understanding Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett
Fiercely Zionist yet pragmatic. Bold but not charismatic. The independent leader of a disparate coalition.
Why are so many of the most influential moms on the internet Mormon?
Influencer culture and LDS theology fit together surprisingly well.
The holy simplicity of artist John August Swanson
His art is like the man who created it: joyful, loving, and gently curious.
Albert J. Raboteau changed both American religious studies and African American studies
He was among the first to ask, What is religion for a people birthed in the cradle of chattel slavery?
How a Serbian Orthodox congregation in Kansas City offers hospitality beyond the liturgy
At Thelma’s Kitchen, every table is a holy table and every guest a living icon.
Is Brazil’s Universal Church of the Kingdom of God a field hospital or a marketplace?
A look inside the thriving (and sometimes controversial) neo-Pentecostal denomination
Beauty from ugliness on the US-Mexico border
Presbyterian border ministry in Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora
Paying the child tax credit forward
It’s a terrific policy for fighting child poverty. But my family doesn’t need the money.
Author Walter Wangerin’s many lives and words
Those of us who worked with him sometimes suspected he had cloned himself.
Fighting for the humanities at church-related colleges
“What good is a Methodist college that doesn't have religion professors?” asks one student.
Willimon and Hauerwas’s out-of-season words on pastoral care
Pastors coping with the pandemic need our encouragement, not our carping.
Pastoral care is part of Christian formation
A response to Will Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas
This Seattle church’s stained-glass Jesus was far too White
So a local artist found a creative way to cover him up.
Restoring bicycles—and lives—in Memphis
Revolutions Bicycle Cooperative, a church-based bike shop with a social vision
It takes faith to resist the attention economy
We need to relearn a capacity to dwell in God’s presence.
On her deathbed, St. Clare of Assisi blessed God
Her radical final words confounded me for years.
Green burial as an act of faith
A growing number of Christians are embracing natural burial practices.
What will Israeli politics look like after Netanyahu?
The promises and dangers of Israel’s new coalition government