Books In Review: The theological anthropologies implicit in our politics David Zahl maps the conservative/liberal binary according to distinctions between high and low anthropologies. by Matthew Stuhlmuller March 9, 2023
Screen Time The ultrarich and their total depravity The White Lotus is part of a growing subgenre that probes extreme wealth as moral deformity. by Kathryn Reklis December 17, 2021
First Words Sin is like a suitcase abandoned at the baggage claim Lent beckons us to claim those forgotten things we’d packed away. by Peter W. Marty February 26, 2021
Opinion Maybe this really is a time of divine judgment Amid pandemic and protest, will we turn to each other and live? by Bailey Pickens July 14, 2020
First Person How I learned to love the doctrine of total depravity When unremitting human sin is something I expect, I can face evil without despair. by Heidi Haverkamp October 2, 2019
Books Take & read: New books in theology To speak words of grace, we must first name the powers and principalities that hold us captive. selected by Jason Micheli May 9, 2019
Books In Review: When Christian practice (de)forms us Do practices make us better people? Lauren Winner isn't so sure. by James K. A. Smith October 23, 2018
Books Take & read: New books in New Testament Can we read scripture critically and theologically at the same time? selected by Joshua Jipp October 8, 2018
Books In Review: N. T. Wright’s creative reconstruction of Paul and his world Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it? by Susan Grove Eastman September 26, 2018
From the Editors Repenting for sexual abuse isn't a distraction from the church's work It is the church's work. August 28, 2018
First Person I was an elementary-school pickpocket Thirty years later my petty crime came back to haunt me. by Katherine Willis Pershey June 28, 2018
Opinion Why are the “good guys with guns” so sure they're good? "It's a sin problem," goes the slogan, "not a gun problem." Whatever definition of sin is operative here, it isn't Paul's. by Steve Thorngate April 10, 2018
Faith Matters Alienated from our own beauty Sin distorts the reciprocity for which God made us. by Debra Dean Murphy January 31, 2018
In the lectionary February 14, Ash Wednesday (Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Psalm 51:1-17) There are two sure things in life: death and sin. by Emily C. Heath January 17, 2018
Cover to Cover The Boston Declaration and God’s monstrous entourage People do terrible things. So does the biblical God. Is there value in naming those things? by Elizabeth Palmer November 29, 2017