Theology
Walter Earl Fluker’s call to the Black church
In King’s time, the goal was to stir the churches to struggle. Now it’s to wake the dead.
The radicalism of Azusa Street
Keri Day places the 1906 revival at the intersection of White evangelicalism, American capitalism, and racism.
Down to earth
For philosopher Costica Bradatan, failure delivers self-knowledge in a way that success cannot.
Why and how I believe in miracles
I don’t struggle with their plausibility. I do struggle with their consequences.
God’s underwater language
As a marine biologist, I ask how—and dance at the edge of asking why.
The rapture and beyond
Daniel Hummel shows how deeply dispensationalism has shaped American religion.
Mercy Amba Oduyoye and her Circle
The Ghanaian theologian has long insisted that the experiences of African women are the experiences of the church.
How we care for dead bodies—or don’t
Cody Sanders and Mikeal Parsons yearn for a better theology around death, dying, and the body.
Julian the theologian
We ignored her for hundreds of years. Then we reduced her to a slogan.
The Word became relationship
Christianity is, finally, a story in which communication prevails over violence.
The novelist and the theologian
I’m trying to live as Haruki Murakami writes: with questions but not an end in mind.
Jesus’ resurrected gut biome
In John’s Gospel we meet a body of flesh and blood. And microbes.
A famous Passion play’s evolution
In Oberammergau, the keepers of a centuries-old tradition have made
big changes—including efforts to expunge antisemitic material.