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Reading again

Books don’t change, but we do.

by Yolanda Pierce

First Words

The interesting life

There is value in experiencing a wide range of emotions each day.

by Peter W. Marty

Science fiction writers imagine the way out

Jesus’ parables give us space to see that something else is possible. Writers of new worlds put flesh on these bones.

by Melissa Florer-Bixler

Books

Black and white image of Jim Thorpe with red text overlay

The myth and reality of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss’s biography of the legendary athlete highlights the contradiction in White America’s attitude toward Native people.

by Aneesah Louise-Ettress Veatch

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The rapture and beyond

Daniel Hummel shows how deeply dispensationalism has shaped American religion.

by Keri Ladner

Standing on holy ground

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s poems carry the vision that all land, all people, and all moments are sacred.

by Peggy Rosenthal

Ekow Eshun’s journey into Black artistic consciousness

The writer and curator expounds on his celebrated exhibition’s thesis: that reimagining Black space and time with the fantastical invites a new way of being in the world.

In This Issue

The myth and reality of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss’s biography of the legendary athlete highlights the contradiction in White America’s attitude toward Native people.

Features

Deconstructed, reimagined faith

Five ways I see a new generation reorienting its Christianity

by Peter Choi

The rapture and beyond

Daniel Hummel shows how deeply dispensationalism has shaped American religion.

by Keri Ladner

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Sunday’s Coming

Leadership challenges (Numbers 11:24-30)

For Moses, besting old No-Name Pharaoh and His Eager Egyptians isn’t even the hardest part.

by Victoria Lynn Garvey

The myth and reality of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss’s biography of the legendary athlete highlights the contradiction in White America’s attitude toward Native people.

Features

Deconstructed, reimagined faith

Five ways I see a new generation reorienting its Christianity

by Peter Choi

The rapture and beyond

Daniel Hummel shows how deeply dispensationalism has shaped American religion.

by Keri Ladner

Voices

Yolanda Pierce

Reading again

Books don’t change, but we do.

Illustration of columnist Mellisa Florer-Bixler

Melissa Florer-Bixler

Science fiction writers imagine the way out

Jesus’ parables give us space to see that something else is possible. Writers of new worlds put flesh on these bones.

Julian DeShazier

The well-credentialed pastor

My friend doesn’t want a PhD. He’s getting one anyway.

Alejandra Oliva

The border is everywhere

For example, it runs right through a detention center in Mississippi.

Samuel Wells

The Word became relationship

Christianity is, finally, a story in which communication prevails over violence.

Brian Bantum

The novelist and the theologian

I’m trying to live as Haruki Murakami writes: with questions but not an end in mind.

Politics

The myth and reality of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss’s biography of the legendary athlete highlights the contradiction in White America’s attitude toward Native people.

abstract of church steeple and family holding hands in blue

From the Editors

Secrets that must not be kept

Clergy-penitent privilege and mandatory reporting exist in complex tension. But child welfare has to come first.

Science fiction writers imagine the way out

Jesus’ parables give us space to see that something else is possible. Writers of new worlds put flesh on these bones.

by Melissa Florer-Bixler