Samuel Wells
Unexpected revelation
My conversation partner may have been a prophet—or a quack. My job was simply to listen.
An ode to Daniel Berrigan
Bill Wylie-Kellerman’s patchwork of poetry, prophecy, and prose reads like a modern Gospel.
Two tough questions at the coffee shop
Why are you still in the church? Why bother with Christianity at all?
Pure justice is an idol
Atop the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, Lady Justice presides over a long history of injustices.
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers explore a theology of restorative solidarity
How can a people paralyzed by facing its history move forward?
A father and his dying daughter came to see me. They wanted different things.
Sometimes truth is better than comfort.
Thinking better about autism
Grant Macaskill’s reflection on neurodiversity becomes a stimulus to renewal of faith.
When the best of times and the worst of times coincide
At St. Martin-in-the-Fields, we’re living through beautiful, nightmarish days.
A non-Christian’s argument for Christianity’s positive influence
Tom Holland doesn’t shout that secularists have no clothes. He whispers that they bear a Christian label.
A neurodiverse God?
The parable of the widow and the unjust judge might give us a radical look at the face of God.
How should the church respond to the colonialism that runs through its blood?
Robert Heaney believes the first step is penance.
Pastors, friendship, and the limits of boundaries
What use are boundaries when you’re sitting with a friend who is about to die?
The refugees on my church’s cricket team
How we stopped seeing a destitute “them” and started seeing wicket keepers and off spinners.
Can libraries save us?
What holds the world together, Eric Klinenberg believes, is social infrastructure.
Why did I go to a charismatic worship service in an arena?
I feared it would last a week. Then came the moment of truth.