Features
A liturgy in the borderlands
The right to life is an essential human right
Companions in the wilderness
The United Methodist divorce is a mistake
Frederick Buechner’s many benedictions
From international student to refugee
Voices
Debie Thomas
An unfettered life
What if God longs for freedom as passionately as I do?
Rachel Mann
The Christian God is a queer God
I cannot begin to imagine anything queerer than the doctrine of the Trinity.
Philip Jenkins
When the Four Horsemen ride again
Climate change will have religious consequences, especially in the Global South.
Jonathan Tran
Critical race theory can help us serve others
Why would we refuse that help?
Brian Bantum
The way to change history is to live out your story
When seismic shifts unseat us, it’s the ordinary that puts us back together again.
Heidi Neumark
A church undergoes structural change
The ELCA is about to gather for a national assembly. There are friends trying to dig through the roof to open a way for those who have been left out.
Books
A fresh translation of Nelly Sachs’s later poems
For Sachs, flight is multivalent: her flight from the Nazis, any refugee’s flight from oppression, God’s flight from God.
Traveling to find home
Tom Fate’s essays present an ethically complicated journey of discovery.
Post-evangelical healing
Charles Marsh writes beautifully about the anxiety instilled by his childhood faith—and the therapy it took to overcome it.
Grandparenting with faith
Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter are grounded and experienced guides.
How the Jerusalem temple fell
Josephus was tight with the emperor. Guy MacLean Rogers trusts his account anyway.
Finding church after religious trauma
Brooke Petersen gathers the stories of eight queer Christians who left churches—and found new ones.
Following the long shadow of America’s original sin
Theologian Alison Benders takes an online pilgrimage through our country’s racial history.
Personhood beyond personalization
Technology can’t give us what we really want, says Andy Crouch.
Departments
Jeff Meadows’s The Peaceable Kingdom
Who’s responsible for coincidence?
