Theology
Stories of the unhoused faithful
Listening to the poorest and most dislocated, Susan J. Dunlap hears the music of faith.
A new translation of “The Dark Night of the Soul” thrills with adventure
In St. John of the Cross’s poetry, the dark night is also a night of profound, even ecstatic beauty.
The ultrarich and their total depravity
The White Lotus is part of a growing subgenre that probes extreme wealth as moral deformity.
December 24/25, Nativity (Isaiah 52:7-10; John 1:1-14)
What is the story within the story that we need to hear anew?
Why I came back around to repentance
First I needed to meet a progressive, gracious God.
End-of-life decisions in the ICU
The Christian tradition has something to say about the ethics of extending life.
Luke Timothy Johnson wants us to read Paul in all his complexity
“What advantage do we gain by possessing a Pauline theology that lies outside and above his writings?”
Created out of nothing means created out of love
To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.
Whiteness rooted in place
“All of our efforts at changing the social fabric of this country must begin with changing the geographic fabric.”
Diana Butler Bass’s love letter to Jesus
Freeing Jesus is not the kind of book we expect from someone with a PhD.
Rubem Alves builds altars of word and song
The bold visions of the grandfather of liberation theology
The kingdom of heaven is like the Brooklyn Public Library
What it has it must freely give away.
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers explore a theology of restorative solidarity
How can a people paralyzed by facing its history move forward?
Karl Barth’s affair with Charlotte von Kirschbaum wasn’t the only major conflict behind his theology
Christiane Tietz explores them all in the first full-length biography since Eberhard Busch’s in 1976.
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five new books about the practice of ministry after our recent calamities
Have Steve Jobs and his gadgets made us less human?
It’s possible he created more problems than he solved.