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Grappling with race as a white college chaplain
I can choose to be in situations where I feel uncomfortable. My students of color can't.
The Museum of the Bible is utterly inoffensive. The Bible is not.
Can artifacts and interactive exhibits ever do justice to scripture's wildness?
Dar Williams has hope for America's small towns
The folk singer has observed what brings neighbors together in communities where she performs.
Something about those wings like eagles
Do we see God not only in nature's beauty, but in its untamable power?
European Catholics grapple with Lord's Prayer translation
Pope Francis has encouraged a new translation—but is also letting local bishops decide which one to use.
The hunger that no meal satisfies
Isaiah 55 gives voice to the longing we can't quite name.
The unadorned self, living forward, and a great lake of beer
What I found when I looked up today’s date in four daily devotional books
Munib Younan, Palestinian Lutheran bishop, passes torch to Sani Ibrahim Azar
Before his consecration as bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, Azar was a pastor in Jerusalem's Old City for three decades.
The gospel according to Kesha
Kesha’s latest album could have been written by Hagar, Tamar, or Ruth.
Government getting involved in congregational safety
Law enforcement is seeking to forge partnerships with faith leaders. It raises a variety of questions about balancing safety with other concerns.
The many lives of Adam and Eve
Stephen Greenblatt weaves an impressive—but incomplete—tapestry of interpretations of the story of the Fall.
Wyatt Tee Walker, MLK confidant and civil rights leader, dies
Walker was "a legend in his own right," said the current president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which Walker also led.
Our responsibility to Salvadoran immigrants
In the 1980s, the U.S. didn’t cite "America first" and stay out of El Salvador's civil war.
Was the 1928 Paris Peace Pact really a failure?
It didn't eliminate war. Still, it transformed international relations.
The many perspectives of American evangelicalism
A new book of essays shows that evangelicals aren't all the same culturally or politically. So what's holding them together?
George Lindbeck was the best teacher I ever had
He was known for the intellectual rigor of The Nature of Doctrine. But what drove him was a commitment to Christian unity.