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Faith Matters

Lent beckons like an open door

For 40 days, we contend with our mortality so that we might know what it means to live.
by Debra Dean Murphy
February 24, 2022

Faith Matters

Two tough questions at the coffee shop

Why are you still in the church? Why bother with Christianity at all?
by Samuel Wells
February 23, 2022

Critical Essay

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill is conspicuously silent on race

Mark Driscoll’s megachurch radicalized White men by weaponizing the White nuclear family.
by Sara Williams
February 21, 2022

Features

What happens when Mormon women are called to ordained ministry?

Talking with five former LDS members who left to go to seminary
by David Howlett and Nancy Ross
February 17, 2022

Interview

A new lectionary that centers women

“If the gospel isn’t good news to the women in the passage, is it still good news?”
Grace Ji-Sun Kim interviews Wil Gafney
February 15, 2022

Books

In Review: 

Catholic acts of mercy during the AIDS crisis

Michael O’Loughlin paints a vivid portrait of the complex, compassionate, and sometimes daring ways individual Catholics responded.
by Aaron Klink February 14, 2022

From the Editor/Publisher

Cultivating Christ-like compassion

We may feel compassion in our guts, but we learn it by practicing empathic solidarity.
by Peter W. Marty
February 4, 2022

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