Theology
Tending love in a time of trauma
My mother grew up in a violent home. But violence was not the totality of her life.
Thinking better about autism
Grant Macaskill’s reflection on neurodiversity becomes a stimulus to renewal of faith.
There’s no theological education pipeline anymore
It’s been replaced by a thriving irrigation hose.
God became flesh, but he never had breast cancer
I was diagnosed just after Christmas. It changed my perspective on the incarnation.
Isolated for the holidays? You should feast anyway.
Even during a pandemic, feasting is central to Christian worship.
How do we grieve the hundreds of thousands of people the COVID-19 pandemic has killed?
We posed this question to five writers.
My mind and what she remembers
When I can't figure out what something means, I give the problem to my mind.
Christians have struggled to understand Judaism on its own terms
John Phelan’s book helps us unlearn what we thought we knew.
The struggle to live in unity when everything’s divided
We know how to wield a sword, but nobody taught us how to cultivate a field.
Willie Jennings’s plea to create a new kind of theologian
After Whiteness is urgent reading for any institution that purports to care about God and race.
Douglas Ottati’s liberal piety
The theologian starts by recognizing that we know enough to live fully in response to God’s grace.
N. T. Wright and Walter Brueggemann look to the Bible for wisdom during the pandemic
They both resist easy answers to the problem of suffering.
White supremacy is a script we’re given at birth
It’s written in our flesh and rehearsed throughout history.
The law in our lives
David Opderbeck’s book about theology, the law, and how we engage with both
Separated from one another—yet still in harmony
Evagrius Pontus and Howard Thurman knew God as simultaneously far and near.
The shape of liturgy when everything is changing
Even stones are constantly being transformed.