Books In Review: A new translation of “The Dark Night of the Soul” thrills with adventure In St. John of the Cross’s poetry, the dark night is also a night of profound, even ecstatic beauty. by Amy Frykholm December 20, 2021
Readers Write Quake: Essays by readers We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Quake.” December 20, 2021
First Person How should I pray for the climate? I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene. by Liuan Huska December 14, 2021
Features Sacred wrestling with the Bible’s “harsh passages” That God would fight for Israel is meant to elicit horror. by Victor Reinstein December 14, 2021
First Words Reckoning with our messiah complexes The vulnerability of the newborn Christ challenges our inclination to play God. by Peter W. Marty December 9, 2021
Books In Review: An American teenager in Slovakia How a year overseas unraveled and remade Sarah Hinlicky Wilson’s identity by Owen V. Johnson December 8, 2021
First Person The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them? by Jason Byassee December 7, 2021
First Person Maybe it’s time for me to let go of Thomas Merton Who do I pay attention to who may be prophetically controversial today? by Cassidy Hall December 6, 2021
Features ’Tis the season for royal Christmas movies What exactly is it about the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that says “tiara romance”? by Catherine Hervey December 3, 2021