Features
My double vision
An architecture of care in Calais
The Iowa poet-priest who mastered haiku
Seeing abortion access as a blessing
Antechapel and rest house
The tree of God’s mysteries
Worshiping at the church of Taylor
Voices
Alejandra Oliva
Caught up in the sweep of history
When I am troubled by the times in which we live, I turn to Óscar Romero.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Nature is not an escape
To understand this, I had to stop reading John Muir and turn to the nature writing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Isaac S. Villegas
Harmful people with helpful ideas
I still read Luther, Calvin, and de Beauvoir. But John Howard Yoder’s sexual abuse has made me rethink my mindset.
Julian DeShazier
The 80/20 rule is a problem for churches
So why do so many of them embrace it as a solution?
Philip Jenkins
Were the lost gospels really lost?
The myth that alternative gospels were suppressed by empire and only recently rediscovered is too good to be true.
Yolanda Pierce
The grace of deep-bellied laughter
Does our theology have space for a Jesus who not only weeps but also laughs?
Books
An island in the storm
Paul Harding’s evocative novel begins with the 1815 hurricane off the New England coast.
Memoir of a native son’s son
Keenan Norris’s sobering book explores Chicago’s role in forging the identity of the Black man in modern America.
The cost of parking
Henry Grabar makes the case that in nearly any realm, from the environment to the economy, justice starts with parking reform.
Understanding the ideology of guns
Sociologist Jennifer Carlson interviewed 50 gun sellers to find out why so many Americans flock toward firearms.
Capitalism everywhere
Lucia Hulsether explores how the global economic system has absorbed the very movements that seek to resist it.
A blessedly particular theology of evil
John Swinton writes about the nature of evil without a shred of metaphysical obscurity.
Can democracy survive social media?
Two new books offer critiques and solutions that aim to recalibrate digital politics toward the common good.
In the Hebrew Bible, love is complex
Song-Mi Suzie Park shows that ahav is dense, powerful, political, and divine.
Departments
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia’s
Papel Tejido 40 (Él derrama
lluvia sobre la tierra y envía
agua sobre los campos)
Papel Tejido 40 (Él derrama
lluvia sobre la tierra y envía
agua sobre los campos)
The absurdity of originalism
