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A novel for frightening times
Han Kang’s main theme is the dignity and the cowardice that atrocity brings forth from people—often the same person.
The new illuminated manuscript?
When I learned that white evangelical women are drawing and painting all over their Bibles, I was caught between judging and celebrating the phenomenon.
The Reactionary Option: Musings on the decline of western civilization
As long as people of color, queer people, and women remain an afterthought in these debates about modernity, our lives and deaths will not matter even as the fate of the world is discussed.
Reading evangelical history with one eye closed
Frances FitzGerald gets the religious right wrong—along with the evangelical tradition generally.
Take this $500 and do good in the world
When our church received a windfall, we tried an experiment.
Are open borders the most ethical approach to immigration?
David Miller’s book doesn’t offer policy solutions. It does help us think clearly.
True Christianity in the midst of American shock
A brief black and Anabaptist account
Can these bones live?
I've been hearing stories of bones, in places that appear desolate and hopeless.
My incarcerated nephew, the guest of honor
Our family reunion in Argentina looked like something straight out of one of Jesus’ parables.
The Spirit of the Lord in us (Ezekiel 37:1-14; Romans 8:6-11)
Honestly, it seems like our flesh has a massive design flaw.
The plain, difficult sense of scripture
Calvin argued for the self-evident clarity of the Bible—the same Bible he wrote thousands of pages about.
Kierkegaard in translation
The Danish philosopher thought faith had become too easy. This book doesn’t have that problem.
More thoughts on Tim Keller
I reject complementarian theology—whatever the degree to which it is put into practice, and however nice the husband is about enacting his authority.
White moral infantilism and some help avoiding it
Several recent films and shows portray people of color with a complexity that James Baldwin once assumed was impossible for pop culture.
What made early Christians a peculiar people?
“One second-century pagan critic of Christianity was willing to tolerate everything else about Christians if they would only worship the gods.”