Books In Review: Creation and new creation A collection of essays invites artists and theologians into conversation. by Melody Bellefeuille-Frost January 19, 2023
Books In Review: On the path to holiness with Dostoevsky Paul Contino offers a hope-filled reading of The Brothers Karamazov. by Jeannine Marie Pitas March 17, 2022
First Words If God is almighty, why do we suffer? A nine-year-old at my church wants to know. by Peter W. Marty December 22, 2021
First Words Reckoning with our messiah complexes The vulnerability of the newborn Christ challenges our inclination to play God. by Peter W. Marty December 9, 2021
Features ’Tis the season for royal Christmas movies What exactly is it about the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that says “tiara romance”? by Catherine Hervey December 3, 2021
Critical Essay Created out of nothing means created out of love To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything. by Norman Wirzba November 1, 2021
Faith Matters “Why didn’t Jesus come as a woman?” asked my daughter I didn’t know how to answer, but I do know that the gendering of God has real-world consequences. by Debie Thomas January 13, 2021
Books In Review: Rowan Williams sees creation through the human, divine Christ The incarnation doesn’t require a miracle; it reveals one that’s already there. by S. Mark Heim August 7, 2019
From the Editors Convicted for taking water to thirsty people The No More Deaths volunteers were imitating the logic of the incarnation. February 11, 2019
First Person The relics in Jerusalem didn’t move me. Why? For some reason, I couldn’t find the holy in the holy rocks everyone else was venerating. by Amy Frykholm December 19, 2018
Born Again Again In praise of gravity My understanding of God has become a welcome object of gravity, as it moved from heady abstractions to my gut. by Carol Howard Merritt January 25, 2018
Books In Review: The incarnation and the challenge of transhumanism If we become godlike, what god will we be like? by Ian Curran November 6, 2017
Books In Review: Paradox at the heart of poetry The Still Pilgrim—seemingly Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's alter ego—reflects joy and longing. by Charles Hughes August 4, 2017
Books In Review: Pedagogy of the embodied Mark Jordan shows us Aquinas—and God—in the flesh. by Philip Christman May 5, 2017
Books In Review: Laughing at what’s not funny Like Jason Micheli, I have incurable cancer. His book helped me find humor in it. by Deanna A. Thompson April 25, 2017