First Words

Jesus the fallible

Why would we want a higher doctrine of scripture than we have of Jesus?

by Peter W. Marty
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False gods of war

In Trump’s Situation Room, as on the fields of Ilium, those who wage war seem unable to experience the violence they inflict as real violence.
by Mac Loftin
From the Editors

The Trump administration’s disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil is chilling

Democracies don’t deport people for thought crimes, not even when they say them out loud.
Features

Remembering a road trip to Selma 60 years ago

My classmates and I were eager to join the voting rights march to Montgomery. But how would we get to Alabama?
by Gary G. Yerkey
News

A look at the various lawsuits faith groups have filed against the Trump administration

by Jack Jenkins

Books

How do we help children weave a healthy faith?

Meredith Miller uses the metaphor of a spiderweb to offer Christian parents and caregivers a new paradigm.
by Morganne Talley

Salman Rushdie returns to the scene

In Knife, the novelist goes back to Chautauqua, where he was nearly killed in a 2022 attack.
by Beth Kissileff

A matter of love, not certainty

In Carl Hughes’s hands, Kierkegaard helps to distinguish Luther’s desire for certainty from his appreciation for mystery.
by David Newheiser

Poems for a difficult life of faith

Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.
by Diane Glancy

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Remembering a road trip to Selma 60 years ago

My classmates and I were eager to join the voting rights march to Montgomery. But how would we get to Alabama?
by Gary G. Yerkey
Sunday’s Coming

Come to the table (Isaiah 55:1-9)

Isaiah comes to the rescue with a word of the Lord.

by Peter S. Hawkins

What is the Bible for?

Whispering, confounding, amazing—never letting go

by Beverly R. Gaventa
First Words

Jesus the fallible

Why would we want a higher doctrine of scripture than we have of Jesus?
by Peter W. Marty

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False gods of war

In Trump’s Situation Room, as on the fields of Ilium, those who wage war seem unable to experience the violence they inflict as real violence.
by Mac Loftin
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Violence is multidimensional

In order to stop it, we have to understand it.
by Kelly Brown Douglas
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The certainty summit

In 1978, a who’s who of conservative evangelical leaders met in Chicago to draft a statement on biblical inerrancy. It would change the course of church and state.
by Liz Charlotte Grant
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The substance of small things I’ve seen

Hope and change mean something different to me now than they did in 2009.
by Brian Bantum

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