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The mystical significance of Jesus’ resurrection
We don’t need to debate the possibility of a reanimated corpse. We need to reimagine our whole understanding of the material world.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the monster of Whiteness
Unmasking and slaying our Promethean desire for mastery
Myanmar’s civil war has continued unabated for 60 years
How could a Buddhist country have one of the worst human rights records in the world?
Amara Ifeji works at the intersection of climate and racial justice
The Nigerian-born activist grew up in Maine playing with the dirt—and experiencing environmental racism.
It’s time to reimagine the church parking lot
What if it functioned more like a bridge than a wall?
Is Russia’s war on Ukraine about religion?
The history of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodoxy suggests the answer is complicated.
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill is conspicuously silent on race
Mark Driscoll’s megachurch radicalized White men by weaponizing the White nuclear family.
What happens when Mormon women are called to ordained ministry?
Talking with five former LDS members who left to go to seminary
Evolutionary science meets evangelical faith
How teachers are helping students accept science without losing their religion
The Chair and the collapse of the humanities
Who, exactly, should preside over meaning-making?
The value of jokes in Jewish-Christian dialogue
Have you heard the one about the priest, the minister, and the rabbi?
We need a word for mothers whose children have died
Karla F. C. Holloway offers one from Sanskrit: vilomah.
In America, Jesus is Black because he was Jewish
As James Cone argued, the universal is revealed in the particular.
A rural church, a small budget, and a giant community meal
Feeding bodies and souls at Everyone’s Table
Desmond Tutu’s transformative vision
He thrived on the process of endearing himself to all who hope for better days.
A worship practice Zoom can’t replicate
Silence, in the Christian tradition, is a shared discipline as much as an individual one.
How some churches are working to alleviate period poverty
Menstruation supplies are expensive—and stigmatized. So many people just go without.
Unorthodox and the captivity narrative tradition to which it belongs
To find an authentic life, do you have to lose your religion?
In Cairo, I sat in on a scriptural reasoning group with Christians and Muslims
Moving beyond amicable consensus to productive discomfort
Sacred wrestling with the Bible’s “harsh passages”
That God would fight for Israel is meant to elicit horror.