An anti-Christian lawsuit

When Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a suit against a Catholic volunteer organization in El Paso, he went against his own church’s statement of faith.

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In praise of church musicians

Great leaders of congregational song attend to the new community formed every time a church gathers.

Naps against capitalism

How can rest be a political act? Poet-theologian Tricia Hersey returns to this question often.

White Christian nationalism’s heritage of extremism

Bradley Onishi brings his scholarship and his personal experience together to analyze where the church went wrong.

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“Blessed Olga said, ‘God can create great beauty out of complete desolation.’”

In praise of church musicians

Great leaders of congregational song attend to the new community formed every time a church gathers.

Episode 38: Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio, author of The Not-Yet God

A conversation with Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio, author of The Not-Yet God, about creation, evolution, word for God, pantheism, and more

Politics

An anti-Christian lawsuit

When Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a suit against a Catholic volunteer organization in El Paso, he went against his own church’s statement of faith.

White Christian nationalism’s heritage of extremism

Bradley Onishi brings his scholarship and his personal experience together to analyze where the church went wrong.

The slow work of dialogue

For 20 years, Mennonite scholars from North America and Shi’a scholars from Iran have met periodically to build bridges.

William Guthrie’s weird Christianity

The rector of St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery brought the church into relationship with the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1920s.