Politics & Society
What’s behind dehumanization?
A book about the psychology and politics of doing terrible things to one another
Is the destruction of monuments a rewriting of history?
Holding in tension our achievements and failures as a nation
Why is Betsy DeVos taking CARES funding from underprivileged schools and giving it to private schools?
Our nation’s public schoolchildren deserve better.
Becoming less defensive about white privilege
The Christian faith provides some tools for letting go of our defensiveness.
The podcast How to Survive the End of the World offers a unique view of apocalypse
Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown explore the end of the world as we know it.
What it means to be a body in Hong Kong
The protests confront us with a difficult question.
The white Christian nationalist scam
Journalists Katherine Stewart and Anne Nelson unveil the mechanisms behind the rise of a movement.
In Nigeria, Christians are fleeing violence—and fearing COVID-19
At the Agan Camp for internally displaced persons in Benue State
Gorsuch’s textualism promoted justice for LGBTQ people—this time
Why we can’t rely on this or any other hermeneutical principle
Iranian asylum seekers are finding hospitality in the Church of England
Saman’s parents disowned him. The church became a new sort of family.
Walking with Moses from slavery to liberation
When Moses says “keep still,” he’s not recommending inactivity.
Multigenerational rage, holy listening, and the unveiling of another way
A conversation between Parker Palmer, Stephen Lewis, Matthew Wesley Williams, and Dori Baker about the book Another Way
Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible is a believable climate fable
The dystopian novel feels about 15 minutes away from becoming reality.
Talking to white kids about what whiteness means
Three children’s books to help start the conversation
I don’t forgive the man who murdered my cousin DePayne at Mother Emanuel
To insist on a narrative of forgiveness is dehumanizing and violent. It goes against the very nature of lament.
Why are so many white Christians suddenly standing up for racial justice?
It might help that our pews aren’t available to sit in and pray.
The coronavirus lockdown was doomed before the mass protests began
Its demise came from the same system that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
James Baldwin reminds us not to be surprised by this
Facing the “intolerable trouble” of antiblack violence
The coronavirus is helping us rehearse for our own deaths
“A lot of people want to talk about the big questions; they just don’t know how to get started.”
A non-Christian’s argument for Christianity’s positive influence
Tom Holland doesn’t shout that secularists have no clothes. He whispers that they bear a Christian label.