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Still seeking justice for George Floyd

Five years after an infamous murder, George Floyd Square in Minneapolis remains a site of protest, lament, and mutual aid.

by Elizabeth Palmer

Features

A call to solidarity at Duke

At graduation, we faculty members looked at one another across the aisle, wondering which of us would be, in the university president’s words, “pruned and thinned.”

by Amy Laura Hall

Features

A road trip to Noah’s Ark

My in-laws took the whole family to a monument to young earth creationism. What could go wrong?

by Liz Charlotte Grant

Voices

Reviled for Jesus’ sake

One of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate us.

by Phil Christman

From the Editors

Who are our neighbors?

A startlingly large number of Americans support immigration arrests in houses of worship.

Books

Pulling Calvin out of predestination’s shadow

Rubén Rosario Rodríguez makes a case for the Reformer as a resource for justice and advocacy work.

by Bailey Pickens

Is slavery integral to Augustine’s theology?

Toni Alimi and Matthew Elia each make the case that it is. Their books demand a reckoning.

by James K. A. Smith

Nzadi Keita’s poems about a “first gen North-born” Black woman

Keita has written a stunning collection about growing up in a working-class Black family in 1960s Philadelphia.

by Philip C. Kolin

In This Issue

Books

Pulling Calvin out of predestination’s shadow

Rubén Rosario Rodríguez makes a case for the Reformer as a resource for justice and advocacy work.

by Bailey Pickens

Voices

Reviled for Jesus’ sake

One of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate us.

by Phil Christman

Books

Is slavery integral to Augustine’s theology?

Toni Alimi and Matthew Elia each make the case that it is. Their books demand a reckoning.

by James K. A. Smith

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A call to solidarity at Duke

At graduation, we faculty members looked at one another across the aisle, wondering which of us would be, in the university president’s words, “pruned and thinned.”

by Amy Laura Hall

Sunday’s Coming

Divine visions? (Acts 16:9-15)

Dominant Western cultures tend to downplay the significance of dreams. The Bible does not.

by Audrey West

In the Lectionary

May 29, Ascension C (Acts 1:1-11; Luke 24:44-53)

People who have died do not typically eat fish, nor expound upon the scriptures, nor stand among us to offer a blessing and then get whisked away into heaven.

by Audrey West

Books

Pulling Calvin out of predestination’s shadow

Rubén Rosario Rodríguez makes a case for the Reformer as a resource for justice and advocacy work.

by Bailey Pickens

Voices

Phil Christman

Reviled for Jesus’ sake

One of the clearest ways God says yes to Christians is when unjust authorities hate us.

Rachel Mann

In times of fear, I return to Julian of Norwich

The medieval mystic offers challenging words for desperate times.

Alejandra Oliva

Longing for faith with Marilynne Robinson

Her essays present a Christianity that sits comfortably with mystery, that reaches out to neighbors as well as up toward God.

Julian DeShazier

The church has a DEI problem

We love diversity. That doesn’t mean we’re willing to make room for difference.

Isaac S. Villegas

Resurrection, then breakfast

Jesus conquers death so he can come back and enjoy another meal, lingering with his friends for as long as he can.

Stephanie Perdew

We are not living in a postcolonial world

Many church folk use the word decolonization while ignoring its only goal: returning Indigenous lands to Indigenous hands.

Politics

Features

A call to solidarity at Duke

At graduation, we faculty members looked at one another across the aisle, wondering which of us would be, in the university president’s words, “pruned and thinned.”

by Amy Laura Hall