Kendrick Lamar and other perform in the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.
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Kendrick Lamar is playing a different game

The “great American game” is played to win and to exclude. Lamar’s halftime show made the case for turning our attention to something better.
by Chris Thiessen
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What is active citizenship in the era of rule by decree?

American political theology has tended to take democracy and the rule of law for granted. What now?
by Benjamin J. Dueholm
Voices

I still have a voice

After the election, I was worried about people being silenced. So I joined a choir.
by Stephanie Perdew
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Nosferatu and the horror of enlightenment

Robert Eggers’s film reminds us that much of what presents itself as common sense is just a contingent arrangement, one form of folklore instead of another.
by Kathryn Reklis
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Faith-based groups challenge Trump orders in two court cases

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Simone Weil’s anti-fascist blueprint

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.
by Mac Loftin
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Did the mainline church pave the way for Christian nationalism?

Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood plumb history to show how the Protestant mainline has intertwined church and state interests.
by Stephen Healey

The role of judgment in Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s sophomore novel

Most reviews of Long Island Compromise blame the characters’ misery on their family’s wealth. But the reality of their predicament is far more serious.
by Caroline Langston

Unlocking the gates of Genesis through poetry

Jessica Jacobs breathes new life into ancient voices.
by Julie L. Moore

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In the Lectionary

February 16, Epiphany 6C (Luke 6:17–26)

I want to be surprised by God, even if that surprise might scare the bejesus out of me.
by Ed Horstmann
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How and what to think

I’m only trying to teach my religion students one of these things. At least that’s what I tell them.
text by Alan Levinovitz, and drawings by Jason Novak
Voices

God’s maternal love

I wonder if what I felt, feared, and learned as a young mother mirrors what God experiences when she tries to feed us.
by Debie Thomas

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What is active citizenship in the era of rule by decree?

American political theology has tended to take democracy and the rule of law for granted. What now?
by Benjamin J. Dueholm
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The wisdom tree (Jeremiah 17:5-10)

Who can teach us a wiser way of life?

by Ed Horstmann

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How the West Bank settlements have changed Israel

The settler movement has spent decades pushing its views to the mainstream and building its political power.
by Arie Perliger
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Simone Weil’s anti-fascist blueprint

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.
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What is active citizenship in the era of rule by decree?

American political theology has tended to take democracy and the rule of law for granted. What now?
by Benjamin J. Dueholm
Features

How the West Bank settlements have changed Israel

The settler movement has spent decades pushing its views to the mainstream and building its political power.
by Arie Perliger
Books

Simone Weil’s anti-fascist blueprint

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.
by Mac Loftin
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I still have a voice

After the election, I was worried about people being silenced. So I joined a choir.
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