Features
Gentle touches
Black Lives Matter
The church's respectability politics: Black Lives Matter symposium
Children at the grave: Making space for grief
Black love of black people: Black Lives Matter symposium
Jesus of the resistance: Black Lives Matter symposium
Full humanity: Black Lives Matter symposium
Healing from the ground up: The church as field hospital
The language of liberation: Black Lives Matter symposium
Voices
Stephanie Paulsell
Within the cross
At the least-visited museum in Rome, a marble cross caught my attention. It depicts the Madonna and Child and the warm tangle of their intimacy.
Philip Jenkins
Christians in the Gulf
The Gulf states do not practice religious freedom in anything like the Western sense. Still, Christianity has secured a surprisingly strong foothold.
Books
The science of injustice
The Enlightenment view of autonomous human subjects is built into the law, so the criminal justice system floats on myths and superstitions.
Hermeneutics in a fragile land
The history of Palestinian Christian interpretation of the Old Testament reminds us of the nuanced, fragile nature of life in that region.
The complex, beautiful history of science
Microscopes reveal countless worlds inside the world, from cells to tiny structures within cells diligently performing mysterious tasks.
God Mocks, by Terry Lindvall
Fear and trauma in immigration policy
U.S. immigration policy has long used the imposition of trauma and the dynamics of fear as weapons.