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A garden for others
The morning after the House passed its health care bill, my daughter and I planted some seeds.
Who is the Benedict Option for?
Rod Dreher calls on Christians to form deeper, more distinct communities. This should sound familiar to liberals.
Living the truth, not just believing it
Well-aligned spokes make a bicycle wheel true. Truthful living gives a person credibility.
The hero of Trevor Noah’s story
If you think the Daily Show host is funny, you should meet his mother.
We need to talk about 1 Peter 2:19-25
On Good Shepherd Sunday, it's tempting to wander there beside the still waters.
Questions in Genesis
A book of essays asks, is the Bible literature? How is a blessing like an oath? And what if Eve was just hungry?
A cure for liberalism?
John Milbank & Adrian Pabst consider Western society’s many problems and offer a prescription: virtue.
Poems of witness
Molly McCully Brown recovers the lives of women at an institution notorious for its eugenics program.
The Spirit's work, denied after the fact
United Methodists have been down this road before. What's different this time is that Karen Oliveto is already a bishop.
Is your church physically welcoming?
You may have signs everywhere proclaiming inclusion of all. But the building itself can exclude some.
The Baptist exception
Christians in the Global South now dominate every major Protestant tradition—except one.
Macy Halford’s two worlds
A New Yorker staffer investigates the evangelical book that will not let her go.
Slaying the monsters
Theological issues might be “settled” for us, but there is a big world out there that needs to hear our voices.