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July 2024

Volume 141, Issue #7
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Features

Hair like wool

Both Daniel and Revelation compare God’s hair to wool. White enslavers used to say the same thing about hair like mine.
by Melissa Burlock

Ukrainian military chaplains learn pluralism on the job

What to do if a soldier from another denomination asks for a prayer?
by Marc Roscoe Loustau

A land dispute in the Old City

Armenian activists in Jerusalem are outraged over an agreement to lease communal land to a hotel developer.
by Gil Zohar

Making room in the UMC for the Spirit’s work

The denomination’s new regionalization plan is a marked break from its colonial hangover.
by Javier A. Viera

What’s behind the grad student strike at Boston University?

My students are being financially exploited—based on a social imaginary that doesn’t reflect the realities of higher ed.
by Nicolette Manglos-Weber
Interviews

Other Jewish voices

“When unqualified support for Israel is categorized as Jewish,” says historian Marjorie Feld, “it erases dissent and flattens Jewish life.”
Interview by Yonat Shimron

Voices

Illustration of columnist Samuel Wells

Samuel Wells

What does it mean to be an inclusive church?

Being a community means welcoming those with diverse views, not cocooning oneself with like-minded people.

Jonathan Tran

What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean?

Could it really be all the different things people say it is?

Illustration of columnist Mellisa Florer-Bixler

Melissa Florer-Bixler

A pulpit without a context

I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.

Books

Puerto Rico as both object and subject of mission

José David Rodríguez provides a decolonial history of Lutheranism in the world’s oldest colony.

by Clint Schnekloth

Leading and lamenting with Nehemiah

Brenda Salter McNeil draws on her community organizing experience to find fresh lessons from the biblical rebuilder.

by Greg Williams

Consciousness all the way down

If consciousness is universal and the universe is fine-tuned for life, Philip Goff argues, then there must be a cosmic purpose.

by Ian Curran

Departments

From the Editors

A crushing lack of humanity

Both Apple’s “Crush” ad and Catholic Answers’ AI priest alarmed people. There’s some hope in that reaction.
Screen Time

The buddy-cop feminist detective series I didn’t know I needed

Deadloch is one of the funniest, smartest, most unexpected delights I have watched in a long time.
by Kathryn Reklis

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