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Episcopal Church releases Jesus in America study, data shows wide-ranging views
by David Paulsen
Nice and normal in the heartland
Phil Christman explores the idea of the Midwest.
by Amy Frykholm
All identities are intersectional
Identity markers are necessary, argues Kwame Anthony Appiah. They're also inadequate.
by Chris Hammer
Can Christians transform culture?
Jamie Smith thinks it might be the other way around.
by Jason Micheli
Zadie Smith leaves no cultural stone unturned
Smith's collection of essays considers the self as an improvised response to language and the world.
by Henry L. Carrigan Jr.
We wish something would prove beyond doubt that Someone obliged us large-brained, bipedal primates with a breath of consciousness.
by Loren Seibold
selected by Jonathan Tran
Of the rewriting Christ and Culture there shall be no end. Miroslav Volf is too sophisticated a theologian to rehash or imitate H. Richard Niebuhr's celebrated fivefold schema, but A Public Faith remains in the shadow of Niebuhr's defining work.
reviewed by Samuel Wells