The intersection between blackness and whiteness
Emily Bernard’s essays insist that no conversation is about race alone.
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Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
The relational religion of Martin Buber
Behind the man’s life’s work is a broken-hearted child.
In the Radical Listening Project, Carol Gilligan’s work has found its voice
The psychologist’s new project makes explicit the moral imperative that has animated her work for decades.
A palliative care physician writes about the mystery of faith
Sunita Puri’s memoir models the kind of compassion and wisdom she brings to her patients.
Doing theology with the assumption that queer people belong
Linn Marie Tonstad summarizes a far more interesting conversation about sex and gender than the one I grew up with.
What made Alexander the Great so great?
F. S. Naiden's biography weaves Alexander's religious proclivities into his well-known martial exploits.
What racism is—and how to organize against it
People already engaged in conversations about racial justice may find Ibram Kendi's analysis surprising.
Two-bit hustlers in the church and elsewhere
In Patrick Coleman’s novel, people hurt others with drugs, dollars, and/or Jesus.
In a politically divided church, what’s the preacher to do?
The answer, says Leah Schade, is about dialogue as much as any single sermon.
Can libraries save us?
What holds the world together, Eric Klinenberg believes, is social infrastructure.
In praise of Elie Wiesel
Two tributes that offer behind-the-scenes glimpses of the beloved teacher
Four people, one church
Cara Wall writes beautifully about something novelists rarely address: a mainline Protestant congregation.
Rowan Williams sees creation through the human, divine Christ
The incarnation doesn’t require a miracle; it reveals one that’s already there.
Philip Kolin’s poems for the holy, violent earth
Yearning for the impossible, glimpsing the unimaginable
I never thought that in 2019 a book on antisemitism in America would be vital reading.
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