How people deal with pointless suffering
Scott Samuelson considers seven responses to the age-old mystery.
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Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Louise Aronson calls for a health-care system that treats elders better
The medical community takes middle-age adulthood as the norm. What if it didn’t?
David Bentley Hart’s polemic against the alleged doctrine of eternal hell
Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.
Two glimpses into Judaism in America
Steven Weisman looks at the development of the Reform movement. Jack Wertheimer focuses on the present and future.
A sneak peek at the CC staff’s Christmas gift list
The deep roots of America’s enchantment with capitalism
Eugene McCarraher explains how money became our object of worship.
Why are rural white Americans willing to prioritize cultural whiteness above all else?
Jonathan Metzl offers useful data and analysis, if not much empathy.
For women in the church, not nearly enough has changed
Kate Bowler explores the world of evangelical Christian women celebrities
A former Jehovah’s Witness tells her story
Amber Scorah’s memoir has a breathless quality that makes it compulsively readable.
Politics, parenting, and other secular things we put our faith in
We’re religious about lots of things, says David Zahl. Just not God.
What the Bible actually says about abortion, slavery, and other controversial topics
Should scripture inform our ethics? How, and which parts?
Why did Lyz Lenz’s church fail? Why do so many others?
The former church planter’s melancholy journey through the Midwest and its faith
When forgetting is more useful than remembering
Some things are better forgotten, says Lewis Hyde.
These six new Advent devotionals may help.
The suffering Jesus in Shawn Copeland’s theology
African American spirituality and God’s act of solidarity
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