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Back to basics with a Dutch Nazi resistor
K. H. Miskotte wrote a Karl Barth for Dummies in 1941. It offers a bracing challenge today.
Ofelia Ortega does theology to empower women
And she does it in an unmistakable Caribbean accent that embraces, hugs, kisses, dances, cries, and rumbles out laughter.
Eastern wisdom for Western Christians
“Looking east can free us a bit from our anxiety or ecclesiastical culture wars or general air of being panicked and overstretched.”
Timothy Jones interviews Rowan Williams
Trauma and embodiment
Hillary McBride draws on psychology and theology to encourage us to befriend our bodies.
Diana Butler Bass’s love letter to Jesus
Freeing Jesus is not the kind of book we expect from someone with a PhD.
In a secular age, Bonhoeffer’s “religionless Christianity” is evergreen
Peter Hooten considers the concept in relationship to the theologian’s entire body of work.
How White Christians turned syncretism into an insult
Early-20th-century European and North American missionaries grew concerned about it—but never in their own churches.
by Ross Kane
Teaching theology in anxious times
“In God’s world, there are always new possibilities—some of which reside in things we find threatening.”
Stephen Healey interviews Douglas F. Ottati
Imagination as a lens for making sense of the world
Cultivating a shared Christian imagination
by Zen Hess
A Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard
Clare Carlisle helps readers struggle with what it means to be human in the world.
by Alan Van Wyk
Is social justice the new reformation?
Anna Madsen’s theological call for taking a stand
When liturgy embraces difference
Rebecca Spurrier’s study of a “disabled church” and its lessons for all Christians
Kathryn Tanner’s anti-work ethic
The theologian doesn’t want finance capitalism to determine what we’re worth.
by Keri L. Day
The “Christian century” and the people who lived it
Brian Stanley pulls off a readable, one-volume history of 20th-century Christianity.
How Christian was Meister Eckhart?
The eccentric preacher's ideas hover between God's absolute otherness and God's self-revelation in Christ.
by John Wilson
In praise of gravity
My understanding of God has become a welcome object of gravity, as it moved from heady abstractions to my gut.
Engaging the mystics
While women have historically been bound by family obligations, household chores, or desperate poverty, there have been monasteries throughout history that allowed some to focus on their vocation without those typical pressures.
The New Testament in the strange words of David Bentley Hart
Greek and English do not work the same way. So what does it mean to create a literal translation?