Features
Disguise: Essays by readers
A mosaic of story
Theology in carceral context
Delores Williams’s voice in the wilderness
An even better Bible
Surviving Hillcrest
Voices
Philip Jenkins
Smashing statues
Iconoclasm isn’t just an expression of anger. It’s how we try to make new worlds.
Isaac S. Villegas
A prison cell transfigured
While teaching in a prison, I got to know a gardener.
Heidi Neumark
The transfiguration of Larissa
When my parishioner returned to church, she seemed to have crossed a threshold that revealed her true self.
Samuel Wells
True patience
It’s about “long obedience,” not idleness or selflessness.
Rachel Mann
The skin of Christ
The church is a body: scarred and punctured but feeling its way through the world.
Debie Thomas
Reclaiming the E word
Evangelism has become a dirty word among progressive Christians. But don’t we have good news to share?
Books
Michelle Huneven’s homage to church life
A novel posing as a memoir that is really a sympathetic comedy
Can patriotism be redeemed?
Theologian Richard Mouw calls for a God-chastened love of country.
Becoming a people together
Gordon Lathrop roots his case for in-person worship in scripture and Lutheran tradition.
Missionary of grief
Musician Nick Cave talks to journalist Seán O’Hagan about his son’s death and the pull of love.
Bringing Zwingli out from the shadows of Luther and Calvin
Bruce Gordon masterfully weaves together the world that shaped the least-remembered Reformer and the ways he shaped that world.
Reading the Bible with Love Sechrest
In Race and Rhyme, associative hermeneutics finds its roots in deep, communal, and highly developed wisdom.
Church vs. injustice, not church vs. state
Ilsup Ahn believes that a different conception of church could have stopped, among other things, housing segregation.
In the face of climate change, how do we tend to our spirits?
In true agrarian fashion, Norm Wirzba suggests starting small.
Departments
Fanny Lechevalier Lafon’s
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Untitled work
The scandal of the anti-intellectual mind
The uncomfortable truth about Hillcrest
