Politics & Society
The Crown abdicates without a successor
My viewing experience recapitulated a running theme of the show: the question, Why are we doing this?
The absurdity of originalism
In Rahimi, the Supreme Court seems to have glimpsed the problems with its own Bruen decision on guns. Should we be relieved?
Can democracy survive social media?
Two new books offer critiques and solutions that aim to recalibrate digital politics toward the common good.
Joyful life in Bethlehem
At a L’Arche community, I learned something about working and dreaming for peace.
No longer Black or White?
Perhaps the neither/nor of Galatians 3 isn’t really about moving beyond specific identities.
A rich woman who took the Magnificat seriously
Vida Dutton Scudder, an early 20th-century radical, points Christians to solidarity and martyrdom.
The rituals we need
Religion scholar Molly Farneth shows how rituals—both civic and religious—change us and the societies we live in.
When stagnant waters become fresh
The dams on the Klamath River are coming down. Their removal reflects a very different theology than their construction.
The emotion standing in the way of peace
Anger can be both healthy and helpful. Rage offers only destruction.
Impoverished by design
Sociologist Mark Rank shows how the United States systematically produces economic vulnerability.
My Pentecostal kin
In my Argentine in-laws’ neighborhoods, there are Protestant churches on every corner. They aren’t mainline.
Why is progressive activism so ineffective?
Fredrik deBoer explains why the mobilization of 2020 produced so few concrete gains.
Bearing witness to multiple stories
Israelis and Palestinians alike are traumatized people who love the land and deserve to live there in peace.
Alice McDermott’s tale of American Catholics in Vietnam
What is the kindest, least condescending help that privileged Christians can offer to the wider world?
When rituals leave us full—and then empty
Leaving the jailhouse graduation, I wondered, Where have I felt like this before?
The artistic vision of Jesus
Aaron Rosen finds that Jesus looks at the world the way artists see their subjects.
Neutrality or solidarity?
In Ukraine, faith-based humanitarian workers face a fundamental question about the nature of their work.
Fake news at church
Three new books investigate how misinformation shapes evangelicals—and propose better ways to reason together.