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Filmmakers release trailer for 'The Philadelphia Eleven,' hope to raise funds to finish film
The producers of a documentary on the...
March 19, Lent 4A (John 9:1-41)
The light of the world illumines those who are open but is opaque to those who claim powerful position.
Did God intend for Adam and Eve to live forever?
Maybe immortality is about more than not being dead.
The Samaritan woman vs. our assumptions (John 4:5-42)
She doesn’t even have a name. Surely she is a questionable character if she has no name.
What I wished for
Sometimes we can’t express what we want, even when we are in desperate need.
The theological anthropologies implicit in our politics
David Zahl maps the conservative/liberal binary according to distinctions between high and low anthropologies.
In Search of Truth and Justice: An Interview with Willie Francois III (S2E3)
“What does it mean to cultivate leaders who are building power inside prison?”
Staying in a culture of leaving
My parents arrived in the US with three suitcases and two toddlers. I’ve experienced wanderlust ever since.
Israeli earthquake rescue team returns 'exported' scrolls to Turkey
The goodwill Israel earned when it sent a team of nearly 700 emergency medical responders to Turkey following the magnitude 7....
City of Fort Worth to buy seminary housing units for $11 million
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary could get an $11 million infusion of cash if a planned sale of 15 acres of property to the City of Fort Worth goes through....
Frank Griswold, who led Episcopal Church through LGBTQ debate, dies at 85
Frank Tracy Griswold III, who led the Episcopal Church through debates over the ordination LGBTQ clergy, died on March 5 in Ph...
March 12, Lent 3A (Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; John 4:5-42)
Water dominated the imaginations of our ancestors in faith, whose stories often called for either a canteen or galoshes.
Why did conservative evangelicals turn against the environment?
It was mostly politics, argues historian Neall Pogue.
Biden administration seeks to rescind Trump-era rule about faith on campus
Does a Trump-era rule protect religious belief of students at public colleges and universities or cause discrimination against...
Abram without Sarai (Genesis 12:1–4a; John 3:1–17)
What we know about Sarai is what she lacks. This week’s reading lacks her.
Learning from the Passover Seder without co-opting it
What wisdom can Christians find in Jesus’ meal-gathering around a religious holiday of his people?
More than 100 faith leaders are trying to prevent Andre Thomas’s execution
Imagine what might happen if they poured that energy into abolishing the death penalty in Texas.
From hateful murmurs to blood libel
Heather Blurton explains the origins and legacy of an outrageous antisemitic lie: the fable of William of Norwich.