The slow work of dialogue

For 20 years, Mennonite scholars from North America and Shi’a scholars from Iran have met periodically to build bridges.

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A holy fool with chocolate

Understanding Wonka in light of the gospel’s message of radical, unconfined love

My evangelical feminist friend Letha

There is no greater evidence of how much Letha Dawson Scanzoni valued relationships than her letters.

Edwards for all of us

George Marsden’s new book returns to the old project of making Jonathan Edwards modern.

Politics

The slow work of dialogue

For 20 years, Mennonite scholars from North America and Shi’a scholars from Iran have met periodically to build bridges.

William Guthrie’s weird Christianity

The rector of St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery brought the church into relationship with the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1920s.

Days of wanting

My family didn’t want to go to America at all; we left Vietnam on pain of death.

Too old to be president?

Critics of Biden’s memory slips fail to mention any of the positive traits associated with aging.