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How much is too much?
In the fourth century, Basil of Caesarea argued that wealth doesn’t just tempt the rich. At some point it warps their ability to see the world at all.
Creativity as alchemy for the world
A collection of lectures-turned-essays urges us to imagine a world beyond empire.
August 30, Ordinary 22A (Exodus 3:1–15)
For anger to fuel hope, it needs to be a fire that burns but doesn’t consume.
The whole, contradictory truth
Martin Luther King Jr. worked to expose the distance between what the United States professed and what it practiced.
Saved for a purpose (Exodus 1:8-2:10)
The church’s job is to care for souls and bodies alike.
Whose antiquity?
Curtis Dozier argues that White nationalists often don’t even have to distort Greco-Roman history in order to misuse it.
All we may become
We’re constantly in the process of growing into something more than we are today.
The common good in the age of AI
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical shows how Catholic social teaching was built to outlast any single issue, including the newest ones.
The church is disappearing from the middle
Religious identity in the US now follows partisan affiliation, says demographer Ryan Burge. But congregations could still be places where that sorting gets undone.
What the border wall does
I went to Tijuana with a group of US Christians to confront the theology embodied by a steel barrier three stories tall.
A Jewish exploration of Christian theology
Alan Brill offers both scrutiny of our doctrines and a word of correction to his fellow Jews.
Citizenship by fiat
Political belonging isn’t naturally grounded in land, ancestry, or anything else. It is based on decisions that governments make and continually revise.