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Not homeless enough to count
Brian Goldstone shows how America’s housing system renders five working families in Atlanta invisible even as they teeter on the brink of collapse.
Has worship become a luxury good?
As working-class stability erodes, congregations are quietly remaking themselves in the image of the middle class.
The great and terrible meaning of war
War is symbolic of humanity’s failure to live in the peaceable kingdom. Yet where there are humans there will always be a search for meaning.
April 26 Easter 4A (John 10:1–10)
Animals know kindness from cruelty—even sheep, who are not the sharpest tools in the shed.
Stay with us—it’s getting dark (Luke 24:13-35)
Compassion and its rationale are so simple.
Deliverance for oppressed and oppressor
The early Black church understood that the church is not just a place for worship—it is a launching pad for liberation.
Seeing Christ’s image in Orthodox women
Ashley Marie Purpura explores the Eastern church’s androcentrism—and finds resources to counter it from within the tradition.
Provoked by hope
“All of my theology,“ says theologian Brandon Ambrosino, “every thought I have, proceeds from God raising the crucified Jesus.”
The Black Madonna and the church’s imagination
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones argues that to name Mary as Black is to challenge Christianity’s complicity in colonization and to claim sacred Blackness.
The Palestinian remnant in Bethlehem
“When your land is confiscated, you can’t do anything about it,” says mayor Maher Nicola Canawati. “People just leave. They lose hope.”
April 19, Easter 3 (Luke 24:13–35)
I don’t know where Jesus is heading when he encounters the two companions on the road, but it seems like maybe he never does get there.
What’s the connection between evangelicalism and conspiracy theories?
According to Jared Stacy, it’s fundamentally about language and story—and it goes back to Colonial America.
Orientation and reassurance (Psalm 16)
What more could one need than an encounter with the risen Christ?
Sermons without church
For someone who doesn’t call herself a Christian, I listen to a lot of sermons. They’re providing some much-needed sustenance these days.
The brutal ax of capitalism
In No Other Choice, the unemployed anti-hero turns to a life of crime to solve his economic woes. He’s not the only one.
A 17th-century Dear Abby
Mary Beth Norton steers between the timeless and the time-lost in this all-too-slim book about the world’s first advice column.