Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan on food justice and Jesus
“Jesus was preaching to people who were in the middle of the worst farming and fishing crisis yet.”
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How fighting for human rights can lead to idolatry
Rights are good, argues theological ethicist Nigel Biggar, but they are not the only good things.
Christian clergy are being kidnapped and killed in Nigeria
From farms to churches, no place feels safe.
How did the Atlanta spa shooter get to that point?
Was there a void where his mind’s eye should have seen the humanity of the eight people, six of them Asian American women, whom he killed?
The good White Christian women of Nazi Germany
Recently I started reading Frauen, Alison Owings’s 1993 collection of oral histories of women who lived through the Third Reich. Owings realized that nobody had bothered to ask the women of Germany their thoughts on the war or the rise of Nazism. Men—the generals, the guards—had been interviewed so much that the phrase “I was only following orders” became a part of our cultural understanding of World War II. But what about the women? Owings wondered. Why did so many good Christian German women support the Nazi Party?
Global Mormonism and its growing pains
Most LDS members are not from the United States. The church’s leadership and practices are another story.
A Black scholar’s challenge to White evangelicals
Anthea Butler is clear about the disastrous legacy of racism at the heart of White evangelicalism.
Why Amazon workers deserve a union
It’s not just about how much they get paid.
Why do we care about the royals?
The monarchy, celebrity, and true greatness