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A very particular humanity
Suzanne Robertson didn’t meet “life” on death row. She met a man named Cecil who loved cheesecake.
Southern California church plants native species in its gardens, becomes part of its natural environment
Editor's note: This story is part of "Growing a Green Church," an ongoing series focused on churches' efforts to steward their buildings and land effectively in the context of ...
Supreme Court ruling in favor of mail carrier celebrated across religious spectrum
In siding with an evangelical Christian mail carrier who quit the US Postal Service after he was forced to deliver packages on Sundays, his Sabbath, the Supreme Court on Thursday did something rare...
Reimagining how we reimagine church
We need to end our obsession with novelty and corporate jargon.
American Protestantism and what it has done
David Hollinger explores how Protestantism has shaped—and warped—a nation’s intellectual life.
Is being adopted or fostered always traumatic?
Jenn Ranter Hook and Joshua Hook say yes—and offer families concrete tools to support children.
Unitarian Universalists elect first woman of color, openly queer president
A womanist theologian, ethicist, and minister was installed as the 10th president of the Unitarian Universalist Association on June 25, following an uncontested election in which she secured 95.5 p...
Bronwen Boswell named Acting Stated Clerk of the general assembly of the PC (USA)
Bronwen Boswell has been named Acting Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)....
Can churches spread the gospel of solar in coal country?
Editor’s note: This story is part of "Growing a Green Church," an ongoing series focused on churches' efforts to steward their buildings and land effectively in the context of ...
July 2, Ordinary 13A (Psalm 13)
I hear the psalmist’s words on the lips of the unhoused. How long, O Lord?
Episode 29: Zack Hunt, author of Godbreathed
A conversation with Zack Hunt about his book Godbreathed, God as She, imperfections/contradictions in the Bible, and much more
The radicalism of Azusa Street
Keri Day places the 1906 revival at the intersection of White evangelicalism, American capitalism, and racism.
Welcome to the commodity biopic
These movies about influential consumer objects aren’t really origin stories at all.
Sing a rights-cleared song to the Lord
“Each report we receive at ONE LICENSE turns into a royalty payment,” says Brenna Cronin, “and those payments are someone’s livelihood.”
After calendar change, many in Ukraine are looking forward to a new Christmas
Nearly five years after the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was recognized as independent from the Russian Orthodox Church by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the OCU has further cemented ...
Domestic poverty and who it serves
Matthew Desmond unties the knot of being poor in the US—and shows the rest of us that we hold the strings.