Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five books that take readers beyond Anglophone perspectives
Church
I might or might not be invited back. Either way, there’s no lasting harm.
Willie Jennings’s plea to create a new kind of theologian
After Whiteness is urgent reading for any institution that purports to care about God and race.
I experience God through the embodied community of faith—and I miss it.
At St. Martin-in-the-Fields, we’re living through beautiful, nightmarish days.
It’s not because we don’t believe in grace.
Instead of memorizing Luther’s theology, the kids built churches that embodied it.
Even stones are constantly being transformed.
Discovering the limits—and possibilities—of common prayer via Zoom
Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s history of the manly godly man
How American evangelicalism baptized male aggression
Forgoing congregational singing as a spiritual discipline
Envisioning part-time clergy as a blessing rather than a sign of decline
Revitalizing lay leaders to bring congregations new life
The Spirit is God’s wild card, played over and over again when old forms fail.
We need our screens right now. But what about later?
Ed Cyzewski’s prepandemic takedown of the digital formation of Christians is still surprisingly useful.
The white Christian nationalist scam
Journalists Katherine Stewart and Anne Nelson unveil the mechanisms behind the rise of a movement.
