Politics & Society
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.
A feast day for the whole church
“The Feast of Creation in Christ names our need to celebrate God’s saving work in creation,” says liturgical theologian Kimberly Belcher, “and to do so together.”
Reforming higher ed by punishing students
Federal policy changes have made student loans harder to obtain—and much harder to pay back.
The faith of an empire
Religious leaders supplied the motives for American expansionism—along with the means and the opportunity.
Protesting into the void
Dissent is becoming a criminal act in America. As Christians, how will we respond?
The future of dying?
Physician-assisted suicide is morally complex. For Christians, it requires wrestling theologically with concepts like suffering, autonomy, and dignity.
The social failure behind assisted suicide
Why are people in pain? Why are their illnesses incurable? Neither advocates nor opponents of PAS tend to ask these questions.
Afro-pessimism and Christian hope
Reading Saidiya Hartman alongside Vincent Lloyd has helped me get through the night.