Our staff's Christmas picks

Features in the December 7, 2016 issue

Eleven CC staff members make their selections:

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Celeste Kennel-Shank, Elizabeth Palmer, Daniel Richardson, Debra Bendis, David Heim, Amy Frykholm, Peter W. Marty, Steve Thorngate, Rachel Pyle, Janet Milkovich

This article appears in the December 7, 2016 issue.

Black church leader says Target boycott won't ease until DEI programs return

A collective Lenten fast from making purchases at Target has been lengthened into a “full-out boycott,” Jamal Bryant, pastor of an Atlanta-area megachurch and one of the leaders of the campaign, an...

by Adelle M. Banks

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The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

by Mac Loftin

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Evangelical fantasies in Amish country

I grew up in the Quiverfull movement. In the tourism industry of Shipshewana, Indiana, I see a lot that looks familiar.

by Cait West

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Have things changed for women since the time of Mary Magdalene?

In a world where we aren’t trusted, Mary’s encounter with the risen Jesus is an act of solidarity.

by Rachel Mann

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