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When theology kills
Ruth Miller’s beliefs led to multiple deaths. Is my own faith giving life or taking it?
The Kirk assassination and the scandal of enemy love
The kind of love Jesus taught may not be popular. But the alternative has already shown its rotten fruit.
What is the lost coin in us? (Luke 15:1-10)
Can we reach the sinner inside and ask what keeps us from coming to the table?
Postliberalism and the romantic lie
I love René Girard. I don’t love that J. D. Vance loves him, too.
A time for nonviolence
Political violence is morally unacceptable, against Charlie Kirk or anyone else. It’s also strategically shortsighted.
The apocalypse of dying
In a collection of short stories and theopoetic interludes, two pastors throw readers into the visceral body horror of end-of-life care.
Carmy Berzatto’s will to change
The protagonist of The Bear wants to believe that art and excellence don’t require trauma and abuse.
The fear of being filmed
Tyler, the Creator’s album Don’t Tap the Glass suggests that our phone cameras pose a threat to our embodied human freedom.
Mother Emanuel’s long struggle
In his history of the Charleston congregation, Kevin Sack frames the 2015 mass murder as the culmination of 200 years of persecution.
Christian progress, Christian regress
The stakes of Obergefell aren’t abstract. Hanging in the balance are the basic rights of living, breathing, beloved people.
September 14, Ordinary 24C (Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; Psalm 14)
Hope where all appears hopeless: that’s where God is.
Jesus makes it hard to be a Christian (Luke 14:25-33)
The problem many preachers face when trying to preach without fear or favor is Jesus himself.
The missing head of Pancho Villa
What does the stolen skull of a Mexican revolutionary have to do with my friend and me, living in Colorado a century after his death?
Guestability
Churches tend to equate the notion of inclusion with hospitality. Peter and Cornelius suggest a more nuanced definition.
Between the synagogue and the streets
Chaim Grade’s characters give voice to the questions, quarrels, and quiet devotions of European Jews on the cusp of the Second World War.
Dark fantasy novels that scream theology
I didn’t expect so much sacramental imagination in Tamsyn Muir’s series about lesbian necromancers in space.