Politics & Society
Masks hide us—and shape us
When extremists don disguises and terrorize others, they also do grave moral damage to themselves.
The price of AI’s techno-religious promises
The environment is not the only sacrifice we’re being asked to make. Workers, too, are being offered up.
An NGO’s complex ethics
Journalist Ross Halperin tells the story of two friends whose work in Honduras finds them bearing the high costs of discipleship.
Global aid writ Lutheran
“We see hope in the small things,” says LWF World Service director Maria Immonen, “but also despair—because the solutions are right there, just out of our reach.”
A win for people power
A faith-based group successfully campaigned to get a major bank to divest from private detention centers. There is hope to be mined here.
Understanding polyamory
Alternatives to monogamous marriage are going mainstream. How will Christians respond?
The wounds of Catholic women
When the Vatican rejected a bid to allow laypeople to preach at mass, I felt again the toll of being dismissed by the church I call home.
The workingman of Nazareth
As AI unsettles the future of work, Jesus’ identity as a tekton deserves a second look.
A sacred migration to a changing future
Colonialism wants to keep Native America locked in the closet of the past. But we have something important to say about the present—and about what comes next.
Wendell Berry’s vision of a sacred world
Experience, reading, and the daily rounds of farm work taught Wendell that scripture is correct: Every creature and every inch of earth is made and approved by God.
Jason Arday should be alive
A competition for clicks turned one man’s exaggerations into a referendum on his life.
Why do Christians support internment camps?
The answer seems to be about race, according to new polling.
How much is too much?
In the fourth century, Basil of Caesarea argued that wealth doesn’t just tempt the rich. At some point it warps their ability to see the world at all.
Creativity as alchemy for the world
A collection of lectures-turned-essays urges us to imagine a world beyond empire.
The whole, contradictory truth
Martin Luther King Jr. worked to expose the distance between what the United States professed and what it practiced.
Whose antiquity?
Curtis Dozier argues that White nationalists often don’t even have to distort Greco-Roman history in order to misuse it.
What the border wall does
I went to Tijuana with a group of US Christians to confront the theology embodied by a steel barrier three stories tall.
Citizenship by fiat
Political belonging isn’t naturally grounded in land, ancestry, or anything else. It is based on decisions that governments make and continually revise.
Douglas Wilson’s theology of victim blaming
The Christian nationalist pastor proposes that women are responsible for preventing men from committing sexual violence—by being subservient to them.