Politics & Society
The Good Lord Bird portrays abolitionist John Brown as a wild prophet
The miniseries is full of big ideas about freedom and self-determination.
It’s time to end the cash bail system
You don’t get people to show up in court by threatening to take away money they never had.
Robert P. Jones says it’s past time to reckon with Christianity’s role in White supremacy
White Too Long envisions the hope that could follow recognition and repentance.
Immigration law and the politics of disgust
How Pharaoh treated the Hebrews and how the US has treated my people
The Baptist War didn’t just end slavery in Jamaica
It utterly reshaped the country’s religious landscape.
Mary’s song reveals her politics of mercy
I think Jesus learned his prophetic ministry from his mother.
There is no single refugee resettlement story
Jessica Goudeau’s new book embeds the memoirs of two very different women in a primer on what it means to seek refuge in America.
Billy Graham and Barack Obama each offered a pastoral voice in a time of tragedy
We need someone to speak to our moment, too.
George H. W. Bush’s letter to Bill Clinton was a model of respect and solidarity
What will Donald Trump leave for Joe Biden?
When religion thrived in New York
Jon Butler’s dazzling study of faith and practice in a 20th-century metropolis
Shattering the myth of the first Thanksgiving
The Wampanoags shared the gifts of the land. The colonists responded with greed and ingratitude.
The fascinating story of the Ivory Coast’s mega-basilica
Why is the world’s largest church building in Yamoussoukro?
The Black Church Food Security Network aims to heal the land and heal the soul
“Food charity is a sweet siren song. It is not a sustainable track toward the Beloved Community.”
Reparations would help close the staggering racial wealth gap
William Darity and Kirsten Mullen make the case for finally addressing a great wrong.
The Porter’s Gate’s songs give voice to the realities of 2020
A collective of Black, White, and Latino church songwriters makes liturgical music for resistance.
How I hope to approach the days following the election
Last time I woke early, opened the curtains, sat down to pray, and started crying.
Trump’s refugee policy is a miserable moral failure
So is our nation’s long history of choosing economic success over global equity, safety, and wellbeing.