Features
Moral church, amoral society
Outline of a service in solidarity with those affected by suicide
Read the main article about the development of this service.
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- Instrumental music: “Largo” from Oboe Concerto no. 3 in G Minor, by George Frideric Handel
- Clergy welcome
- Opening address
- Choral music: “O Thou that Art the Light,” by Gabriel Jackson
Lost
A liturgy for people affected by suicide
Antiracism is everyone’s work
Books
An act of solidarity with LGBTQ Methodists?
J. Philip Wogaman tried to surrender his ordination. Would this have helped?
Dazzling essays from flyover country
There are two conditions Meghan O'Gieblyn can't escape: Christianity and Midwesternness.
Christian humanism in a technocratic world
Alan Jacobs's biography of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and C.S. Lewis
Still resisting Constantine
According to Reformation scholar Jason Mahn, the birth of Christendom was a sort of Fall.
Departments
Inclined toward God at the end of life
Last Judgment, by Gislebertus (ca. 1130)
Why Americans have a spiritual need for KonMari
Convicted for taking water to thirsty people
Remembering Mary Oliver and her prose
News
United Methodist assembly meets to make a decision on sexuality and the church
There are multiple options on the table at the special meeting of the top legislative body for the 12.6-million-member global denomination.
Rena Weller Karefa-Smart, international ecumenical leader, dies at age 97
She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Divinity School, to receive a doctorate in theology from Harvard Divinity School, and to receive tenure at Howard Divinity School.
Byron and Beth Borger, independent Christian bookstore owners, face uncertain times
“There are very few self-defined Christian bookstores like Hearts and Minds,” said author John Fea.
Foster care agency allowed to continue Protestants-only policy
The U.S. government recently granted faith-based foster care agencies in South Carolina an exemption to a regulation barring religious discrimination in federally funded foster care programs.
New York Muslim village calls for justice after plot against it is foiled
For more than a decade, Islamberg has been a focus of right-wing conspiracy theories and has found itself the target of anti-Muslim white supremacist attacks as a result.
Despite claims by politicians, Muslim extremism is rare in the U.S.
Last year only 14 Muslim Americans were arrested for alleged involvement with violent extremism—and none of them entered the country illegally.
Philippine church bombing causes fears of derailed peace process
Dozens were killed or wounded during mass Sunday at a cathedral in the majority Muslim part of the country, where most voters approved expanding an autonomous region to make peace.