Features
Homeless people get organized—and radical
In Tacoma, Minneapolis, and elsewhere, people without housing have taken over buildings.
The generations of hurt that the Chauvin conviction can’t heal
We are disguising our collective wounds instead of treating them.
Eastern University has served as the evangelical left’s laboratory
The school has produced limited doctrinal controversy—and a lot of prominent advocates for justice.
Hip-hop artists Sho Baraka and Propaganda flip the script
Stanley Hauerwas says good theological writing makes the familiar strange.
A civil rights pilgrimage through the eyes of Congolese refugee teenagers
We began to understand why James Baldwin called US history “more beautiful and more terrible than anyone has ever said about it.”
COVID and the faithful risks pastors have taken
This is a high-stakes time. Some churches need to take more creative risks than ever before.
Black churches address vaccine hesitancy
Helping a community navigate historical concerns
Christian clergy are being kidnapped and killed in Nigeria
From farms to churches, no place feels safe.
10 ways for Christians to embrace our creative power
Being born is a holy calling to join God in free, joyful, and playful expression.
How are dinner churches surviving the pandemic?
For some congregations, sitting down together for a meal is the heart of worship.
New sacred choral music at the Grammys
Richard Danielpour’s universal Passion and James Primosch’s mass for doubters
Seven questions I ask before posting to social media
I begin with, Is it worth it?
What does a seminary education prepare you to do?
Six of my Duke Divinity students, ten years later
Imagining the future of theological education
Conversations with Rowan Williams, Justo González, Emilie Townes, and Sam Wells
A jail visit and a promise to a mother
This was Deputy Kiosha’s house, and I was in it.
Beloved Everybody, an ability-inclusive church that embodies the beloved community
At this church, people with and without disabilities both worship and lead.
Why The Crown is so fascinating to a world in perpetual crisis
As the series drifts, it mimics the drift of the monarchy itself—and of other institutions.
In Eugene, civilian response workers are dispatched to nonviolent crises
CAHOOTS is providing a model for rethinking public safety.
Why some young Black Christians are practicing hoodoo
The ancestral religious practices of the African diaspora were forced underground by the White church.
Why Jane Goodall reminds me of Dorothy Day
The remarkable, costly life of a secular saint