Features
God's love, our bodies
Loving the church too much to let it stay the same
In college, I changed my name to Rachel. It didn't stick.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's theological trouble
A playwright's quest for a missing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin file
8 ways to recruit, engage, and keep volunteers
Why did Paul prefer singleness for himself and others?
Books
A book about ethics—and nearly everything else
John Stackhouse's real-world ethics primer covers just about every subject, but it leaves out an important one.
How Wendell Berry helps us negotiate our post-agrarian condition
Something is lost when we no longer know the art of filling a wagon.
The talented Tara Isabella Burton
In Burton's debut novel, Louise and Lavinia represent the possibility that compulsive self-disclosure is a form of self-concealment.
A deep history of women’s cultural criticism
Michelle Dean's book isn't exactly a group biography. But it is a highly entertaining feast of quotes, anecdotes, and analysis.
Departments
Having faith in God is better than being certain about God
Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene (Noli me tangere), by Bronzino
Imprinted on idols
What The Americans teaches about deception and relationships
No tolerance for zero tolerance
News
Since before #MeToo, Boz Tchividjian has held abusers in church accountable
Tchividjian, a grandson of Billy Graham, founded GRACE as the Catholic abuse scandal was emerging in the early 2000s—alerting Protestants to the issue in their churches.
Theodore McCarrick charged with sexual abuse
Catholic officials required the retired archbishop to stop ministry activities. McCarrick maintained his innocence.
Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri and Cindy Kohlmann become PCUSA comoderators
The "bold, unapologetic women" will share the second most important position in the 1.4 million–member denomination for two years.
Nigerian interfaith couple perseveres in the city where Boko Haram began
Aisha and Vincent Anibueze, a Muslim and a Christian, have found ways to thrive despite violence in Maiduguri.
Churches rebuke Jeff Sessions on immigration rules
U.S. Catholic bishops called asylum a right-to-life issue that could carry "canonical penalties." And the attorney general's fellow United Methodists brought charges against him with the denomination.
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from breakaway Anglican group in South Carolina
The Episcopal Church in South Carolina has asked the state court to give it control of the 29 church properties in question.