Politics & Society
Tyre Nichols’s killing is not an exception
Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.
Smashing statues
Iconoclasm isn’t just an expression of anger. It’s how we try to make new worlds.
The scandal of the anti-intellectual mind
Why are so many Christians opposed to science and captivated by conspiracy theories?
What went wrong at Hamline?
The administration’s reaction to a classroom conflict reveals a deeper problem in higher ed.
Thinking through abortion ethics in the classroom
What if we began with character, my students and I asked, rather than rights?
A health-care system emergency
ER doctor Thomas Fisher writes with moral clarity—and a whiff of hopelessness.
February 5, Ep5A (Isaiah 58:1-12)
Ritual and justice don’t exist in a push-pull relationship.
We need a better masculinity
I stumbled upon a helpful book recently that sheds light on some of the more troubling myths of manliness.
Theology in carceral context
“What does it mean,” asks Willie Francois, “to cultivate leaders who are building power inside prison?”
January 29, Epiphany 4A (Matthew 5:1-12)
Luke’s Beatitudes are for the poor. What if Matthew’s are, too?
Glass Onion threads the Agatha Christie needle
A murder mystery can provide sharp social commentary—and great fun.
Our holy, human bodies
To build the Beloved Community, we need to think and talk and act differently about bodies.
Monday night meal plan
My church offered college students weekly fellowship.
It turns out they needed the food, too.
The prophetic church in Ortega’s Nicaragua
One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.
Church vs. injustice, not church vs. state
Ilsup Ahn believes that a different conception of church could have stopped, among other things, housing segregation.
Listen to the survivors
Some churches are starting the long process of reckoning with their role in the horrors of Indigenous boarding schools.