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December 27, 2021

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Critical Essay

The good White Christian women of Nazi Germany

Despite what you’ve read, most of them didn’t resist.
by D. L. Mayfield
March 25, 2021

How My Mind Has Changed

I’m a philosopher. We can’t think our way out of this mess.

I’m throwing in my lot with the poets and painters, the novelists and songwriters.
by James K. A. Smith
February 25, 2021

Critical Essay

When localism becomes nationalism

At the farmers market, I found something I didn’t expect—White supremacists.
by Rebecca Bratten Weiss
August 9, 2021

Interview

The dangers of providing pastoral care

Woundedness is the predictable price we pay for being sent on outrageous assignments by Jesus.
William H. Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas in conversation
July 27, 2021

First Words

Six predictions for the post-pandemic church

It won’t look the same, but there’s potential for renewal.
by Peter W. Marty
March 10, 2021

Reflection

Ecclesiastes has some things to say about COVID-19

The ancient wisdom text urges us to find joy in the limits of the present moment.
by Brent A. Strawn
January 5, 2021

Features

Why some young Black Christians are practicing hoodoo

The ancestral religious practices of the African diaspora were forced underground by the White church.
by Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
January 6, 2021

How My Mind Has Changed

How I changed my mind about same-sex marriage

It began when I realized the church has always had a process for changing its mind.
by Francis Spufford
July 19, 2021

Features

Eastern University has served as the evangelical left’s laboratory

The school has produced limited doctrinal controversy—and a lot of prominent advocates for justice.
by Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans
April 22, 2021

First Person

My husband and I moved to be near friends

Why does this sound strange to people?
by Heidi Haverkamp
April 30, 2021

Interview

Whiteness rooted in place

“All of our efforts at changing the social fabric of this country must begin with changing the geographic fabric.”
Matthew Vega interviews Willie James Jennings
October 26, 2021

From the Editors

Critical race theory is a gift to Christians

The good news about collective and institutional sin is that, like individual sin, it can be redeemed.
June 28, 2021

Features

Imagining the future of theological education

Conversations with Rowan Williams, Justo González, Emilie Townes, and Sam Wells
by Benjamin D. Wayman
February 10, 2021

Features

crucifix in front of stained glass

Willimon and Hauerwas’s out-of-season words on pastoral care

Pastors coping with the pandemic need our encouragement, not our carping.
by Beverly R. Gaventa
August 18, 2021

Interview

Iconographer Kelly Latimore sees God in plain sight

“People asked, ‘Is it George Floyd or Jesus?’ My answer was yes.”
Robert Lowes interviews Kelly Latimore
April 26, 2021

First Person

The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again

So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them?
by Jason Byassee
December 7, 2021

How My Mind Has Changed

We have to be willing to begin again

This is true of failures in writing, in faith, in life itself.
by Kathleen Norris
April 27, 2021

Notes from the Global Church

How Quebec went from one of the most religious societies to one of the least

Americans don’t have to look as far away as Europe for an example of how quickly secularization can come.
by Philip Jenkins
April 28, 2021

Critical Essay

Why I’ve come back around to substitutionary atonement

Sometimes sacrifice is an act of love.
by Martha Tatarnic
March 16, 2021

Critical Essay

The New Testament’s most dangerous book for Jews

Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism
by Jesper Svartvik
September 13, 2021

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