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Whited sepulchers or living stones?
Many churches have signs declaring that all are welcome. But are their buildings really inviting to the community around them?
At the deathbed of a man who cared for others
Every week, Cameron visited the lonely and afflicted. Now I’m visiting him.
Obama's unprecedented voice
No president knew the literature and religion of America better—not even Lincoln.
A multiracial family’s questions and fears
This Is Us depicts the dangers of life alone and the complications of life together.
A call to change careers (Matthew 4:12-23)
There was certainly nothing wrong with doing what I did before.
The call to moral resistance
Trump isn’t Hitler. Still, the Confessing Church models how we might respond to the new president.
A feel-good story's power and limits
There is a danger in responding to a film like Hidden Figures by congratulating ourselves on how far we’ve come.
Betsy DeVos and the kingdom
I share Dutch Calvinist heritage with Trump's pick for education secretary. I wonder if we see God's kingdom the same way.
A preacher and an ironworker
During seminary, I spent my summer breaks building bridges.
Elegies without consolation
An anthology of poetry mourning the demise of the Church of England
Can retiring pastors mentor their own successors?
Now that 60 is the new 50, creative models are emerging for ministry transitions.
Moonlight, MLK, and the damage we do to each other
Moonlight is hard to watch—but also essential viewing—because of what it reveals about us as humans.
A conversation with David Brooks about sin and beauty
“We live differently than we say we live. There’s moral judgment all around.”
A rabbi’s memoir of making a family
Anyone with a complicated life and family—all of us—will find a home in Susan Silverman’s story.