Features
My dad’s old Bible offers more questions than answers
The post-Catholic Joyce
Coffee justice in Mexico
The making of God
Early Christianity, fragment by fragment
Why do you want to see?
Voices
Rachel Mann
Facing a world on fire
The contemplative life is about getting closer to reality, not retreating from it.
Brian Bantum
What’s special about a church building?
How many buildings do we pass by in our daily lives where we could simply walk in, sit down, and participate?
Debie Thomas
Too much mystery?
Leaving evangelicalism allowed me to embrace the mystery of faith. I wonder if I’ve taken it too far.
Philip Jenkins
How empires spread religion
A global map of Christianity is stalked by imperial ghosts.
Heidi Neumark
The wilderness of a rural ministry circuit
I’m now a half-time “missional coach” to a six-church parish. I have many questions.
Isaac S. Villegas
Tear gas over the soccer field
“You’re welcome to take it back home with you,” my Palestinian friend said as I looked at the US-made canister in my hand. “Actually, take all of them.”
Books
The stories I needed growing up
I’m excited about the direction of AAPI children’s fiction.
Twin threats to democracy
Patricia Ventura and Edward Chan interrogate the ongoing enabling relationship between White supremacy and neoliberalism.
An evangelical scholar reads scripture through Artemis
Sandra Glahn shows how the Greek goddess’s prestige influenced the portrayal of women in Ephesians and 1 Timothy.
Karl Barth in a nutshell
Marty Folsom does what no previous scholar has done: make Church Dogmatics available to all.
Navigating James Baldwin’s legacy
Greg Garrett provides a road map for the terrain of the prophetic writer’s work and thought.
The Pharisees didn’t kill Jesus
If they had been the ones presiding over Jesus’ trial, says biblical scholar Israel Knohl, there wouldn’t have been a crucifixion.
A pastor’s disappointments
Amy Butler’s memoir is a story of relentless striving and continued failures. In other words, it’s a story of the church.
The uniquely American story of Crownsville Hospital
Antonia Hylton digs into the history of a Maryland asylum that forced its Black patients to build their own facilities.
Departments
Gathering for good
A failure of compassion
