Arts & Culture
Mushrooms at the table?
People have long tried to trace a connection between the early church’s eucharistic practice and psychedelic substances. Scholars aren’t convinced.
A clear view
When our congregation designed our new sanctuary, we wanted windows that help us see our neighborhood’s needs.
The God-haunted music of Julien Baker
There’s a certain horror and heartbreak in God’s grace.
Episode 33: Poet and public speaker Kaitlin Curtice, author of Living Resistance
A conversation with poet and public speaker Kaitlin Curtice about embracing cyclical thinking, deconstructing faith, Mother Earth, and more
Teen comedies for a sex-positive generation
In the raunchy high school comedies of my youth, sex was a forbidden land. Not in Sex Education and Bottoms.
A poet converted by her own writing
Denise Levertov’s intuitive grasp of incarnation drove her politics, her poetry, and eventually her religious discernment.
Reckoning with self-destruction
We all live in Oppenheimer’s world now, and it is one that constantly invents the Ethan Hunts and Indiana Joneses of our fantasies.
A story of water and faith
Abraham Verghese’s new novel tells an epic tale of a family of Thomas Christians in modern India.
Seeing Dante with Botticelli’s eyes
Joseph Luzzi tells the rich, entertaining story of the Renaissance artist’s renderings of a quintessentially medieval text.
Grace without conquest
Art historian Matthew Milliner has written a groundbreaking history of a beloved icon’s role in imperial Christianity’s collapse.
Marjorie Maddox’s capacious poetry
She can (and will) do anything with this English language she so clearly loves.
Horror movie mom
When I watch a mother slay a monster and hustle her kids to safety, it never fails to satisfy.