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The world White evangelical women made
Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s follow-up to Jesus and John Wayne covers consumerism, multilevel marketing, and the hard right turn to MAGA.
Standing before Isaiah
This year, the most famous Dead Sea Scroll went on display in its entirety for the first time since 1968. The prophet’s metaphors ring as precisely as ever.
Rosalia’s mystical path to loving God
The songs on Lux take us on an intimate journey through the artist’s own spiritual awakening.
Ninety-nine names for a God beyond measure
As anthropologist Amira Mittermaier asks Egyptians who God is to them, she both attends to Islamic tradition and refuses to let it impose limits.
November 15, Ordinary 33A (Matthew 25:14–30)
This parable is not about productivity or achievement.
An interfaith pioneer
John Pawlikowski, a founding faculty member of Catholic Theological Union, stood as a bridge between Christian and Jewish communities.
Enough oil for whom? (Matthew 25:1-13)
It is possible to be prepared and still miss something important.
Birds, blood, and scripture’s silenced women
Sarah Ghazal Ali’s debut poetry collection is a raw and confessional reckoning with divine encounter.
The Leonard Cohen 10k challenge
I decided to listen to his whole discography while running. Even as slowly as I run, it would take a lot of kilometers to do it.
Waking up in a no-longer-red state
Here in Texas, Republican dominance just collapsed in an evening. The state was also the site of some earlier signs of the national blue wave to come.
Trending topics: Our cats, ourselves
Seven books about how domestic cats help us to see ourselves more clearly
Bonhoeffer’s warning
In a 1939 essay, he compares the German and US churches—and asks what Christian freedom looks like when political pressure overwhelms theological clarity.
A war dog’s odyssey
Paul Yoon’s novel of a military dog making his way home through the wreckage is quietly theological.