Politics & Society
Glass Onion threads the Agatha Christie needle
A murder mystery can provide sharp social commentary—and great fun.
Our holy, human bodies
To build the Beloved Community, we need to think and talk and act differently about bodies.
Monday night meal plan
My church offered college students weekly fellowship.
It turns out they needed the food, too.
The prophetic church in Ortega’s Nicaragua
One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.
Church vs. injustice, not church vs. state
Ilsup Ahn believes that a different conception of church could have stopped, among other things, housing segregation.
Listen to the survivors
Some churches are starting the long process of reckoning with their role in the horrors of Indigenous boarding schools.
Another look at the 1619 Project
I approached the project’s new anthology with some skepticism. Its contents quickly dispelled my doubts.
In the face of climate change, how do we tend to our spirits?
In true agrarian fashion, Norm Wirzba suggests starting small.
Surviving Hillcrest
Letta Cartlidge created a group for missionary kids who’d attended her boarding school in Jos, Nigeria. The stories of abuse poured in.
Who gets to live on the land?
Historian Jo Guldi argues that land occupancy struggles aren’t just about fairness; they’re about humanity’s survival.
What sort of Christian story is viable in our time?
I’m hoping for one that’s lyrical, chastened, hallowed.
What MeToo hasn’t yet accomplished
Social media movements fade. Survivors of sexual assault and harassment need living communities.
Reading The Waste Land as it turns 100
T. S. Eliot’s epic poem is a masterpiece—but what do we do with its view of classical Western tradition?
Who owns the heavens?
With the space race outsourced to astropreneurs, the final frontier is for sale to the wealthy few.
What was good about Twitter
The eulogies began when Musk took over. What are we mourning?
After growth
Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we need to live with less stuff—and way less people.
A busload of migrants were told something was waiting for them in Chicago
It was our job to be that something.