Voices
Debie Thomas
Why and how I believe in miracles
I don’t struggle with their plausibility. I do struggle with their consequences.
Philip Jenkins
Paul’s lost letters
We’ll never know what he wrote to the churches at Jerusalem or Caesarea Maritima.
Heidi Neumark
The strangers who saved my life
When you receive an emergency transfusion, you don’t get to choose who the blood comes from.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Science fiction writers imagine the way out
Jesus’ parables give us space to see that something else is possible. Writers of new worlds put flesh on these bones.
Julian DeShazier
The well-credentialed pastor
My friend doesn’t want a PhD. He’s getting one anyway.
Alejandra Oliva
The border is everywhere
For example, it runs right through a detention center in Mississippi.
Samuel Wells
The Word became relationship
Christianity is, finally, a story in which communication prevails over violence.
Brian Bantum
The novelist and the theologian
I’m trying to live as Haruki Murakami writes: with questions but not an end in mind.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Jesus’ resurrected gut biome
In John’s Gospel we meet a body of flesh and blood. And microbes.
Philip Jenkins
When and where did the resurrected Jesus first appear?
The Bible offers conflicting answers.
Heidi Neumark
Encouraged by donkeys
For almost 40 years they have done their plodding, gracious work on me and my vocation.
Debie Thomas
Jesus is the question
He might be the answer, too. But he doesn’t offer much in the way of tweetable platitudes.
Jonathan Tran
Anti-racism’s mission drift
Privileged progressives have turned their attention from structures and systems to sentimentalism.
Brian Bantum
Did God intend for Adam and Eve to live forever?
Maybe immortality is about more than not being dead.
Yolanda Pierce
What I wished for
Sometimes we can’t express what we want, even when we are in desperate need.
Alejandra Oliva
Love is revision
Marriage is an opportunity to keep working on the same story each day.
Philip Jenkins
Smashing statues
Iconoclasm isn’t just an expression of anger. It’s how we try to make new worlds.