Politics & Society
In Europe, church taxes are voluntary. People pay them anyway.
But for how long?
L’Arche’s values of accompaniment, vulnerability, and mutuality are bigger than Jean Vanier
Such values have shadow sides. They are also desperately needed in the world.
A church returns land to American Indians
“This is decolonized land,” a young woman said. “This is a liberated zone.”
What if Christianity never existed?
Walter Scheidel’s tour de force of world history is based almost entirely on counterfactuals.
What an open door to asylum seekers looks like
A Laredo pastor and his family are hard at work helping others, on both sides of the border.
What is federally protected land for?
The Trump administration is treating it as plunder. The Antiquities Act saw it as a bearer of stories and wonders.
Loving your political enemy at the National Prayer Breakfast
Arthur Brooks gave the room an important assignment. President Trump turned it down.
The burden of climate change in Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning Parasite
Class criticism is a common theme in movies. This one says something more unusual.
Learning to face the doctrine of discovery
I wish I’d had Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah’s book when I was in college.
At the border, “law and order” looks a lot like chaos
Trump’s new policies are creating confusion and misery.
Is there a way beyond hyperpartisanship?
“We have remade our nation before and we can do it again.”
When we advertise our righteousness, it becomes self-righteousness
What we can learn from the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector
In the beginning, God created difference
Theodore Hiebert’s deft reading elicits a fresh awareness of the legitimacy of the other in Genesis.
Daniel Ortega’s slide into corruption and authoritarianism
Nicaragua’s liberator has become its dictator.
Religious freedom in America
Melissa Rogers considers what a healthy role for religion in American public life might look like.
Faith formation in my world religions classroom
Each year a Hindu priest asks my students to “worship our own, but respect all.” They find the second part easier.
The many failures revealed by the Afghanistan Papers
US officials have been lying about the war since it started. Why don’t we care?
How the security culture has burdened women
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz shows how the post-9/11 US has intensified control of women’s bodies.