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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.
Joining in song (Isaiah 52:7-10; Psalm 98; Hebrews 1:1-12)
Sometimes someone else has to start singing before we can.
Idylls without idols (1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26; Luke 2:41-52)
There’s a lot of a certain sort of pleasure pursued around Christmas.
The ultrarich and their total depravity
The White Lotus is part of a growing subgenre that probes extreme wealth as moral deformity.
Becoming a blessing (Hebrews 10:5–10)
God the Son is committed to gladly and freely doing the Father’s will.
In Cairo, I sat in on a scriptural reasoning group with Christians and Muslims
Moving beyond amicable consensus to productive discomfort
How 20th-century mainline Protestants shaped immigration policy
And how that policy shaped the 21st-century mainline church
Sacred wrestling with the Bible’s “harsh passages”
That God would fight for Israel is meant to elicit horror.
How should I pray for the climate?
I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene.
January 9, Baptism C (Luke 3:15–17, 21–22)
When we resist the powers that oppress this world, we are baptized through fire.
Episode 13: Community developer and editor Chris Smith, author of How the Body of Christ Talks
A conversation with community developer and editor Chris Smith about the Englewood Review of Books, spirituality for the journey, the messiness of life, and more
The Russian troops at the Ukraine border are part of a larger ploy
What can the US do to change Putin’s political calculus?
A novel about purity culture and its harm
At its core, God Spare the Girls is about a family history doomed to repeat itself.
