Bonhoeffer’s warning
In a 1939 essay, he compares the German and US churches—and asks what Christian freedom looks like when political pressure overwhelms theological clarity.
Barth’s refusal
The rise of the American Muslim public servant
Are both parties to blame?
Books
A war dog’s odyssey
Reading the Bible as if trans lives depended on it
The settlers didn’t just seize land—they remade religion
Trending topics: Hunger horror
In This Issue
Bonhoeffer’s warning
A war dog’s odyssey
November 8, Ordinary 32A (Joshua 24:1–3a, 14–25)
Voices
Stephanie Perdew
Chasing shinies in a secular age
Is Pokémon GO a late-capitalist venture in re-enchanting the world?
Phil Christman
The politics of cutting people off
Political breakups aren’t some new low in American life. They’re an understandable response to stakes that have always been life and death.
Julian DeShazier
Rebirth pangs
Where something has died, something else must now be born. It’s not going to be fun.
Benjamin J. Dueholm
Church gossip and a pastor’s double life
I’m obligated to a high standard of confidentiality. I also find the stories on social media hard to resist.
Brian Bantum
My prayer for soldiers
I looked up to see a line of 50 kids in uniform boarding the plane. Every one of them had brown skin like mine.
Peter Choi
A gospel of belonging in Korea
It’s my first time here in decades, and I have been struck by the depth of relational intimacy on display everywhere I go.
Politics
Bonhoeffer’s warning
The rise of the American Muslim public servant
Are both parties to blame?