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I live in an inner-city neighborhood and am pastor of a church here. It is not hell.

Joy Williams’s stories disarm, bewilder, and awaken us.

We have now heard Donald Trump’s words, literally ad nauseam, as he boasted about forcing himself on women, kissing them and grabbing them. Now, while the Republican Party implodes, many conservative evangelicals are brushing off the comments.

Our fall books issue's reviews include Phil Christman on Colson Whitehead, Dennis O'Brien on Cathleen Kaveny, LaVonne Neff on Susan Faludi, and more.

Zacchaeus's daily life as a tax collector was reduced to the symptoms of his society's sickness.

Naaman's servants' question cuts and burns.

How is it that the poems of a 17th-century aristocrat still resonate with us?

People achieve different milestones, in different orders. Can churches celebrate this?

He was exonerated—but the state refused to pay him for his 30 years on death row.

I was able to sit and have a brief conversation with him about racism, a whitened Jesus, and the reign of God. I thought you might appreciate the conversation as well. Let me know what you think.

It's easier to see God working when we are on the margins—like the Samaritan leper was. I learned this in a psychiatric hospital.

From baby in a basket to liberating lawgiver, Moses has been all things to all people.

We thought her only stern and rigorous and dry—until one afternoon in October.