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God’s underwater language
As a marine biologist, I ask how—and dance at the edge of asking why.
Burnout and resilience in the wilderness
Many rural pastors like me are finding Jesus in the desert places.
Rival Orthodoxies in Ukraine
The war is revealing divisions among Christians in the region—and deepening them.
Tom Stoppard gets personal
Leopoldstadt grapples with the 86-year-old playwright’s Jewish roots and his fear about the direction of our society.
Hungary’s progressive Christian resistance
Viktor Orbán has tried to buy the loyalty of the churches, but not everyone is selling.
Deconstructed, reimagined faith
Five ways I see a new generation reorienting its Christianity
Mercy Amba Oduyoye and her Circle
The Ghanaian theologian has long insisted that the experiences of African women are the experiences of the church.
Julian the theologian
We ignored her for hundreds of years. Then we reduced her to a slogan.
The woman behind tarot’s strange beauty
I wonder how Pamela Colman Smith worked it out in reverse, led by her own creativity straight to the Catholic Church—the place I’ve tried to leave.
The power of the Latin neuter
An ancient language offers my nonbinary students something English does not.
My gender is a circle
So I took a new name—as many characters in the Bible do.
The duly elected Black men expelled from a state legislature—155 years ago
The expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson recalls the Original 33, expelled by Georgia’s anti-Reconstruction White majority in 1868.
The White church still owes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” an answer
King’s letter is so soaked in US history that 60 years later we almost forget it was addressed not to the nation but to specific Christian pastors.
A famous Passion play’s evolution
In Oberammergau, the keepers of a centuries-old tradition have made
big changes—including efforts to expunge antisemitic material.
Staying awake for Easter
What ritual remedies exist to sharpen our spiritual attention, focus, and clarity?
Restorative justice with Anselm
The satisfaction theory of atonement offers my incarcerated students something the substitution theory does not: a way to make amends and be restored.
The problem with artificial intelligence is us
As long as AI is trained on human behavior, it will tend to replicate our worst flaws.
Five ways your church might already welcome autistic adults
And some ideas for expanding that welcome
The language of rights and its limits
My niece Butterfly has me thinking about bodies, love, and responsibility.
Staying in a culture of leaving
My parents arrived in the US with three suitcases and two toddlers. I’ve experienced wanderlust ever since.