From farms to churches, no place feels safe.
Violence
What is “religious violence”?
We know what violence is, but what counts as religion?
My mother grew up in a violent home. But violence was not the totality of her life.
How do you construct a narrative in the aftermath of communal trauma?
What’s behind dehumanization?
A book about the psychology and politics of doing terrible things to one another
Facing the “intolerable trouble” of antiblack violence
Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”
Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.
In Luke’s postresurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s short stories reveal the insanity and violence of our society
Evoking the murders of unarmed black men, this collection is meant to appall us.
At the border, survivors of violence present their scarred bodies as testimony.
We don't have to choose a political party. We do have to name the problem for what it is.
Poetry for a world that’s falling apart
Jeremiah Webster charts a via negativa in verse.
Why Roxane Gay resists the conversion narrative
Sexual violence doesn't always allow its survivors to claim redemption.
Jewish history tells me to be both compassionate and alert. When it comes to the Palestinian conflict, I don't know how to do both at once.
Did Christianity destroy classical pagan culture?
Catherine Nixey is right: the early Christians were violently destructive. So were the Romans, the Persians, and the plagues that swept across the ancient world.