Theology
Learning to face the doctrine of discovery
I wish I’d had Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah’s book when I was in college.
Pope Francis’s vision of a wounded church converted by mercy
How can the church become less of a citadel and more of a field hospital?
How Katherine Sonderegger finds delight in a humble God
Theology as a love letter to God
When liturgy embraces difference
Rebecca Spurrier’s study of a “disabled church” and its lessons for all Christians
How should the church respond to the colonialism that runs through its blood?
Robert Heaney believes the first step is penance.
What if we treated all of creation—plants and stars, soil and rivers—as our kin?
Biblical scholar Mari Joerstad and indigenous activist Nick Estes challenge our human-centered worldview.
How did American racism get to this point?
Joel Goza explores America’s addiction to racism and racialized poverty.
In Advent and Christmas, desolation and consolation reside together
This time of year, our inner landscapes can seem as bleak as the outer ones.
How people deal with pointless suffering
Scott Samuelson considers seven responses to the age-old mystery.
David Bentley Hart’s polemic against the alleged doctrine of eternal hell
Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.
Politics, parenting, and other secular things we put our faith in
We’re religious about lots of things, says David Zahl. Just not God.
The impossible, essential task of writing poetry after Auschwitz
Bearing witness, challenging God, voicing lament
A playground bully, her victim, and their God
An incident in Germany reminded me who we all belong to.
How Christian theology and practice are being shaped by trauma studies
Talking about God in the face of wounds that won’t go away
The suffering Jesus in Shawn Copeland’s theology
African American spirituality and God’s act of solidarity
The unmodern Luther
Christine Helmer threatens to dash to pieces the pieties of modern Luther scholarship.
Take & read: Practical theology
New books that are shaping conversations about practical theology
Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?
How Augustine responded to the problem of evil without solving it
When we make sense of suffering, we lose our ability to protest against it.