Theology
Reading scripture with Augustine
The bishop of Hippo isn’t just for JD Vance and Mike Johnson—and Bible studies aren’t just for evangelicals.
Holy uprising
I’ve long seen the ascension story as an absurdity. John Donne helps me see it as a revolution.
When Christians do unchristian things
It can be tempting to respond to people’s harmful actions by denying their identity as Christians. We should resist this temptation.
Reading Aquinas’s five proofs as a trans man
Both faith and identity are lives to inhabit, not arguments to win. There is nothing to prove.
Seeing Christ’s image in Orthodox women
Ashley Marie Purpura explores the Eastern church’s androcentrism—and finds resources to counter it from within the tradition.
Provoked by hope
“All of my theology,“ says theologian Brandon Ambrosino, “every thought I have, proceeds from God raising the crucified Jesus.”
The Black Madonna and the church’s imagination
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones argues that to name Mary as Black is to challenge Christianity’s complicity in colonization and to claim sacred Blackness.
The genders within us
I am more and more convinced that trans people’s gender multiplicity will point us to our collective liberation.
What does the death of Jesus have to do with me?
Whatever the historical reasons for the crucifixion, the Christian tradition has always insisted that one of the reasons Jesus died is me.
Etched in flesh
Stigmata assert identity and collective memory through self-scarred skin. What if we read the Thomas story through a tattoo hermeneutic?
All atonement theologies are contextual
God is known not in abstraction but among those we police, punish, and forget.
For Mark, Easter begins in trembling
The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way to a hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself.
Why I don’t like the label “progressive Christianity”
I’ve come to approach it with suspicion—for pastoral, political, and theological reasons.
For all peoples
Judaism once had a universalist vision, long before Christianity emerged as a distinct religion. What happened to it?
The common good is something we practice face-to-face
The incarnation pulls my attention away from ideology and toward my neighbor.
Remembering not to forget
At their best, theology and history are complementary tools that enact remembering as a sacred practice.
Catholics and Jews discuss Zionism
This provocative book wrestles with a big question: What, if anything, is the theological significance of the emergence of the state of Israel in 1948?
My queer, infertile fatherhood
Last Lent, I found myself reckoning with the concept of failure—and beginning to understand the power of standing in suffering with God.
Jesus and the wilderness of trans identity
I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.