Politics & Society
Evolutionary science meets evangelical faith
How teachers are helping students accept science without losing their religion
Why should we care about what’s happening to the Uyghurs?
Chamath Palihapitiya’s question is worth taking seriously.
A vibrant Christianity in South India
Despite the government’s desire to eliminate non-Hindu faiths, churches thrive in the nation’s diverse south.
In America, Jesus is Black because he was Jewish
As James Cone argued, the universal is revealed in the particular.
Is there an antidote to White grievance?
It’s hard to imagine this fear-driven resentment responding to outside counsel.
The Biden administration’s offshore drilling bonanza is voluntary—and dangerous
It’s time for the president’s actions on fossil fuels to match his words.
Desmond Tutu’s transformative vision
He thrived on the process of endearing himself to all who hope for better days.
Christian nationalism vandalizes the imagination
When churches whitewashed their walls, they left themselves vulnerable.
How some churches are working to alleviate period poverty
Menstruation supplies are expensive—and stigmatized. So many people just go without.
Marcus Rashford is keeping Christianity in the British limelight
To find religious activity among the nation’s young, look to Afro-Caribbean athletes.
Saumya Roy lets Mumbai’s garbage pickers speak for themselves
Castaway Mountain gives voice to families who have been impoverished by the whims of the powerful.
Unorthodox and the captivity narrative tradition to which it belongs
To find an authentic life, do you have to lose your religion?
The forced migration of Native Americans pushed them to inferior land
A recent study illuminates the economic cost of land theft. What might reparations look like?
The book of Exodus includes a story about reparations for slavery
White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead.
The ultrarich and their total depravity
The White Lotus is part of a growing subgenre that probes extreme wealth as moral deformity.
How 20th-century mainline Protestants shaped immigration policy
And how that policy shaped the 21st-century mainline church
How should I pray for the climate?
I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene.
The Russian troops at the Ukraine border are part of a larger ploy
What can the US do to change Putin’s political calculus?