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Trump the savior-king

The president, just as the Christian Reconstructionists intended, sits at the top of a violent system as the mouthpiece of a silent, abusive God.
by Liz Charlotte Grant
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The imitation of the Spirit

Christians are taught to practice imitatio Christi, empowered by the Holy Spirit. What if we flipped this narrative?
by Meg Giordano
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God cares about people, not what you call the West Bank

A US House committee will now use the biblical names Judea and Samaria. The point is to frame a political conflict as a religious war.
by Fares Abraham
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The call of a remnant prairie

I’ve seen artists enchanted and haunted by the prairie, their work changed by spending time in the grasses.
by Alejandra Oliva
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In Martin Marty’s classroom

One evening, Marty had the whole class out to his house. There were shelves of books that he wrote or edited and even more books by his students. I thought, I do not belong here.
by Thomas Willadsen

Books

Poems for a difficult life of faith

Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.
by Diane Glancy

The story of Richmond’s “cathedral of the Confederacy”

Christopher Graham’s book focuses on the racism of one Virginia congregation. It will challenge all those who cause harm in the name of virtue.
by Peyton Williams

Inside the lives of everyday workers

Mark Larson’s collection of soulful interviews is a worthy successor to Studs Terkel’s 1974 classic Working.
by Jesse Lava

The legacy of “religionization”

Marianne Moyaert provides a helpful but somber history of the ways European Christians have imagined people of other faiths.
by Leo D. Lefebure

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Books

Poems for a difficult life of faith

Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.
by Diane Glancy
Features

The imitation of the Spirit

Christians are taught to practice imitatio Christi, empowered by the Holy Spirit. What if we flipped this narrative?
by Meg Giordano
Books

The story of Richmond’s “cathedral of the Confederacy”

Christopher Graham’s book focuses on the racism of one Virginia congregation. It will challenge all those who cause harm in the name of virtue.
by Peyton Williams

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Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.
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Trump the savior-king

The president, just as the Christian Reconstructionists intended, sits at the top of a violent system as the mouthpiece of a silent, abusive God.
by Liz Charlotte Grant
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Trump the savior-king

The president, just as the Christian Reconstructionists intended, sits at the top of a violent system as the mouthpiece of a silent, abusive God.
by Liz Charlotte Grant
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God cares about people, not what you call the West Bank

A US House committee will now use the biblical names Judea and Samaria. The point is to frame a political conflict as a religious war.
by Fares Abraham
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Criticize J. D. Vance’s ordo amoris comments all you want—but please, leave Jews out of it

Christian responses that appeal to the gospels have misrepresented both the biblical texts and Jewish ethnocentrism.
by Ethan Schwartz
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An ungovernable faith

By refusing to swear oaths, 16th-century Anabaptists took away the state’s primary tool for control.
by Melissa Florer-Bixler

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