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.

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The ocean’s infinite game

Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that exists underwater.

May 4, Easter 3C (John 21:1-19)

John tells us the mother of all fish stories.

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.

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The ocean’s infinite game

Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that exists underwater.

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.

May 4, Easter 3C (John 21:1-19)

John tells us the mother of all fish stories.

Politics

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.

Evangelical fantasies in Amish country

I grew up in the Quiverfull movement. In the tourism industry of Shipshewana, Indiana, I see a lot that looks familiar.

White supremacy and the Latino vote

Journalist Paola Ramos takes a nuanced look at the world of right-wing Latinos, revealing the logic behind their ideology.

The Trump administration hasn’t attacked religious schools and seminaries—yet

Liberation theologian Ignacio Ellacuría didn’t leave us a blueprint for resistance, but he speaks to times like ours.