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The price of AI’s techno-religious promises

The environment is not the only sacrifice we're being asked to make. Workers, too, are being offered up.
by Colton Bernasol
Features

Understanding polyamory

Alternatives to monogamous marriage are going mainstream. How will Christians respond?
by David Congdon
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Wendell Berry’s vision of a sacred world

Experience, reading, and the daily rounds of farm work taught Wendell that scripture is correct: Every creature and every inch of earth is made and approved by God.
by Norman Wirzba
Voices

The wounds of Catholic women

When the Vatican rejected a bid to allow laypeople to preach at mass, I felt again the toll of being dismissed by the church I call home.
by Stephanie Saldaña
Features

Dolly Parton’s faith was hard to measure

But it was at the heart of her immeasurable legacy.
by Jason G. Edwards

Books

An NGO’s complex ethics

Journalist Ross Halperin tells the story of two friends whose work in Honduras finds them bearing the high costs of discipleship.
by Aimee Allison Hein

In love with a fantasy

Amanda McCracken thought she’d been unlucky in love. Instead she’d been faithful to the idea of longing itself.
by Kristel Clayville

Something resembling God

Adam Hughes explores the far side of certainty and what happens when belief begins to dissolve.
by Garrett Mostowski

A memoir that cannot find the words

Journalist Lauren Markham finds herself searching for language adequate for grief on a planetary scale.
by Baird Linke

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In This Issue

In the Lectionary

September 20, Ordinary 25A (Matthew 20:1–16)

A day’s wage for a day’s work? There is no such thing in a farm family.
by JoAnn A. Post
In the Lectionary

September 13, Ordinary 24A (Exodus 14:19–31; Psalm 114)

Sometimes God changes history by moving oceans, sometimes by making the wheels fall off.
by Timothy Adkins-Jones
Features

Beauty and how to see it

Reading Van Gogh’s letters has helped me uncover a deeper, more textured theological understanding.
by Zac Koons

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Politics

Online Columnists

The price of AI’s techno-religious promises

The environment is not the only sacrifice we're being asked to make. Workers, too, are being offered up.
by Colton Bernasol
Books

An NGO’s complex ethics

Journalist Ross Halperin tells the story of two friends whose work in Honduras finds them bearing the high costs of discipleship.
by Aimee Allison Hein
Interviews

Global aid writ Lutheran

“We see hope in the small things,” says LWF World Service director Maria Immonen, “but also despair—because the solutions are right there, just out of our reach.”
Interview by Elizabeth Palmer
From the Editors

A win for people power

A faith-based group successfully campaigned to get a major bank to divest from private detention centers. There is hope to be mined here.

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