Voices

Why make things?

I couldn’t afford a nice bookshelf, and I couldn’t bring myself to buy a cheap one. So I headed to the hardware store.

by Brian Bantum
First Words

The apology deficit

Ours is an era of cultivated transgressiveness, in which leaders vice signal their lack of interest in apologizing when they’re wrong.
by Peter W. Marty
Interviews

Science is finally catching up with Teilhard de Chardin

Frank and Mary Frost, the filmmakers behind a recent PBS documentary about the Jesuit paleontologist, have long seen him as a true visionary.
Interview by Jessica Mesman
From the Editors

The politics of performance

In the Trump era, the narrative around legislative efforts seems to matter a lot more than the actual results.
Features

When Superman deconstructs

Many have criticized the new film’s twist on its hero’s origin story. I found it powerfully resonant.
by Chris Thiessen

Books

Christology without supersessionism

Chris Green invites Christians to a humbler reading of scripture—one that listens, learns, and refuses to displace Israel’s voice.
by Jesper Svartvik

Jack Caputo’s insistent, nonexistent God

According to the radical theologian, “God’s essence is in our hands.”
by Jesse Lava

Evangelical idols and ideologies

In their new books, Mike Cosper and Jeff Mikels critique evangelicalism from within.  Do they go far enough?
by Jon Mathieu

Encountering art and encountering God

For theologian Judith Wolfe, imagination is a necessary part of how we know the Divine.
by Lauren F. Winner

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Why make things?

I couldn’t afford a nice bookshelf, and I couldn’t bring myself to buy a cheap one. So I headed to the hardware store.

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Politics

First Words

The apology deficit

Ours is an era of cultivated transgressiveness, in which leaders vice signal their lack of interest in apologizing when they’re wrong.
by Peter W. Marty
A collage of a person's hand throwing a pair of dice
Voices

The case for being a killjoy

We may be reluctant to say anything that sounds puritanical. But our private morality really does matter.
by Phil Christman
From the Editors

The politics of performance

In the Trump era, the narrative around legislative efforts seems to matter a lot more than the actual results.
Voices

A sanctuary for banned stories

When truth is being cast as lies, the sacred work of storytelling is urgent.
by Kelly Brown Douglas

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