Politics & Society
Facing fascism
As lawless gangs of ICE agents terrorize city neighborhoods, it’s getting harder to maintain that the United States is a democracy.
Abolish ICE, and don’t stop there
Law enforcement officers generally resist any attempt to bring them to heel, and they are usually successful.
Mandatory mourning
What the responses to Charlie Kirk’s death reveal about truth, power, and the Christian call to honest grief
What does White Christian nationalism have to do with yoga?
In his new book, Stewart Home analyzes the wellness-to-fascism pipeline.
The self-appointed cowboy messiah
Rachel Wagner traces the way frontier fantasies and apocalyptic faith fuel today’s gun-obsessed culture.
Yes, Charlie Kirk was a missionary
Trump is right about this—but not for the reasons he claimed.
Freedom and the price of the ticket
James Baldwin reminds us that those who seek to police the freedom of others are, ironically, the least free.
Priced out
Patrick Condon builds on existing inequality research to focus on one big problem: the price of urban land.
Mapping my city’s moral geography
When I returned to Harrisonburg, I began to see how the built environment reflects and shapes our values and desires.
Terrible leaders of the Bible
When I remember the story of Jonah the insufferable prophet, I am filled with a strange hope.
Praying the imprecatory psalms with Bonhoeffer
How did these psalms about enemies feel in 1940? How do they feel today?
Confounding words
In the gospels, sometimes Jesus responds to questions much like the young Bob Dylan did in interviews.
The Kirk assassination and the scandal of enemy love
The kind of love Jesus taught may not be popular. But the alternative has already shown its rotten fruit.
Postliberalism and the romantic lie
I love René Girard. I don’t love that J. D. Vance loves him, too.
Christian progress, Christian regress
The stakes of Obergefell aren’t abstract. Hanging in the balance are the basic rights of living, breathing, beloved people.
The missing head of Pancho Villa
What does the stolen skull of a Mexican revolutionary have to do with my friend and me, living in Colorado a century after his death?
Inside ‘the new American fascism’
Katherine Stewart explores the strange alliance seeking to impose its antidemocratic vision on the US—one Moms for Liberty meeting at a time.
What is religious freedom for?
The church’s calling is far more exciting and urgent than endorsing political candidates.
The word outlasts the throne
Kings fall, tyrants pass, and hope endures in the prophets’ vision of God’s story.
The blasphemy of national Christianity
When push comes to shove for nationalist Christians, ethnicity comes first.