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The church has a DEI problem
We love diversity. That doesn’t mean we’re willing to make room for difference.
May 11, Easter 4C (Psalm 23; John 10:22-30)
Jesus is very clear: Snatchers, no snatching!
A throne without a king (Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19)
In Revelation, Jesus is the Weird Barbie of lambs.
Black Church is my mother tongue
To speak Black Church is to dwell in a world of metaphors about a God who is engaged in the lives of Black people.
The gods present their arguments
David Bentley Hart imagines Eros, Hephaistos, Hermes, and Psyche coming out of retirement to debate contemporary philosophy and science.
Trending topics: Sexual assault and the church
Senior editor Jessica Mesman reviews four new books.
Resurrection, then breakfast
Jesus conquers death so he can come back and enjoy another meal, lingering with his friends for as long as he can.
The ocean’s infinite game
Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that exists underwater.
We are not living in a postcolonial world
Many church folk use the word decolonization while ignoring its only goal: returning Indigenous lands to Indigenous hands.
Faithful Thomas (John 20:19-31)
Christianity in India goes back to the ancient world.
Doubting Thomases in an age of science
It takes courage to plunge our hands smack-dab into the side of the universe and reach for a God that could be real.
Tolkien 2.0
The fantasy writer’s vast theological and philosophical universe is unfolding in the hands of artists, scholars, and game designers.