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The path to clarity (Matthew 23:1-12)
Is it possible to know what is real? Whom to believe?
Give to the one who asks of you
I’m on this man’s side, even though I didn’t give him any money. Right?
Alice McDermott’s tale of American Catholics in Vietnam
What is the kindest, least condescending help that privileged Christians can offer to the wider world?
Why Black women are rising to lead top theology schools
At Mount Holyoke College, the oldest of the Seven Sisters colleges, Danielle R....
Signs of Mary Magdalene in John 11
“If John’s christological confessor is also the first person the risen Jesus appears to,” says biblical scholar Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, “that could make her a competitor to Peter’s authority.”
Words to remember (Psalm 34:1-10, 22)
Psalm 34 is like balm to the weary spirit and nourishment to the hungry soul.
The God-haunted music of Julien Baker
There’s a certain horror and heartbreak in God’s grace.
November 5, Ordinary 31A (Joshua 3:7–17)
Such an unbelievable and far-fetched plan. And yet the people believe Joshua.
Both mother and child (1 Thessalonians 2:1-8)
Paul, speaking for Silas and Timothy, offers a layered metaphor.
When rituals leave us full—and then empty
Leaving the jailhouse graduation, I wondered, Where have I felt like this before?
The artistic vision of Jesus
Aaron Rosen finds that Jesus looks at the world the way artists see their subjects.
Episode 33: Poet and public speaker Kaitlin Curtice, author of Living Resistance
A conversation with poet and public speaker Kaitlin Curtice about embracing cyclical thinking, deconstructing faith, Mother Earth, and more
Poll: Growing number of US adults support the use of political violence
Support for political violence and concern over the state of democracy are both on the rise, with 75 percent of people in the United States believing the future of democracy is at risk in the next ...
November 1, All Saints Day (1 John 3:1–3)
“Children of God” is a name we do not earn and do not work for.
Teen comedies for a sex-positive generation
In the raunchy high school comedies of my youth, sex was a forbidden land. Not in Sex Education and Bottoms.
Neutrality or solidarity?
In Ukraine, faith-based humanitarian workers face a fundamental question about the nature of their work.
Fake news at church
Three new books investigate how misinformation shapes evangelicals—and propose better ways to reason together.
A poet converted by her own writing
Denise Levertov’s intuitive grasp of incarnation drove her politics, her poetry, and eventually her religious discernment.
October 29, Ordinary 30A (Deuteronomy 34:1–12)
The nature of God’s judgment is not entirely clear. What has Moses done wrong?
Why Hamas is selling its assault on Israel as a holy war
When Hamas, the Islamic Palestinian terrorist group, stormed into southern Israel on October 7, took over military bases, massacred more than 1,300 Israelis—most of them civilians—and kidnapped 150...