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Paul Thomas Anderson’s pursuit of freedom in relationship
One Battle After Another makes no argument for the “right” sort of revolutionary action. It’s more concerned with the relationships between parents and children.
Hope arrives in the present tense
Living in the liturgical present makes salvation a story about us, not just the past.
The UFW march and the writing of Catholic history
On March 17, 1966, farmworkers marched to Sacramento in a procession replete with Stations of the Cross. Jeannine Hill Fletcher seeks to foreground them and others whose land, labor, and lives were effectively stolen in the name of Christ.
What criminal justice reform will require
Debbie Hines draws on her legal career in Baltimore to show what redemption looks like in practice.
March 22, Lent 5A (Ezekiel 37:1–14; John 11:1–45)
Dry bones don’t resurrect themselves.
Seeing God’s works beyond reward and punishment (John 9:1-41)
We can’t reconcile the senseless mercy of Jesus with an insistence that life is fair.
Why I don’t like the label “progressive Christianity”
I’ve come to approach it with suspicion—for pastoral, political, and theological reasons.
Rethinking atonement with an emphasis on trust
In her third book on trust, Teresa Morgan argues that it is what empowers us to turn away from wrongdoing and suffering and toward God.
Arbitrary president, trustworthy God
Our leaders have made it impossible to trust them. God is different.
Deconstructing the Catholic imagination
Rebecca Bratten Weiss finds treasures in the ruins of Christian literary classics. But first, the idols need to be smashed.
Showing up as clergy
“I wasn’t sure about the MDiv,” says Teresa Kim Pecinovsky, a chaplain and pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota. “But in Ferguson, I kept seeing clergy show up in support of protesters on the front lines.”
Essays by readers: Twilight
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Twilight.”
Refusing the rituals of cancel culture
Christians are called to pursue accountability through restoration—not exclusion.
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Practicing compassionate patriotism
Recent books by Amanda Tyler and Drew Strait offer concrete, actionable advice for resisting Christian nationalism.
The massacre that never ends
The brief biblical account of Herod’s slaughter of the innocents raises the question of what faith demands when politics fails to stop the killing.
March 15, Lent 4A (Psalm 23; John 9:1–41)
Psalm 23 isn’t just a song of comfort and consolation. It’s also about heroism and the world set to rights.
Public health’s humble giant
Bill Foege, who oversaw the eradication of smallpox, was soft-spoken, self-effacing, and focused on other people’s achievements more than his own.