Features
My gender is a circle
The power of the Latin neuter
The White church still owes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” an answer
A famous Passion play’s evolution
Restorative justice with Anselm
Five ways your church might already welcome autistic adults
Learning from the Passover Seder without co-opting it
Faith comes by hand
Tyre Nichols’s killing is not an exception
Voices
Brian Bantum
The novelist and the theologian
I’m trying to live as Haruki Murakami writes: with questions but not an end in mind.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Jesus’ resurrected gut biome
In John’s Gospel we meet a body of flesh and blood. And microbes.
Philip Jenkins
When and where did the resurrected Jesus first appear?
The Bible offers conflicting answers.
Heidi Neumark
Encouraged by donkeys
For almost 40 years they have done their plodding, gracious work on me and my vocation.
Debie Thomas
Jesus is the question
He might be the answer, too. But he doesn’t offer much in the way of tweetable platitudes.
Jonathan Tran
Thinking through abortion ethics in the classroom
What if we began with character, my students and I asked, rather than rights?
Books
A complex story of relationships and religion
The protagonist of Alice Elliott Dark’s novel gives readers the flawed heroine they crave.
Reading the Bible with a transgender minister
Shannon Kearns knows and is known by scripture deeply; he knows scripture better because he is trans.
Ordinary American stories
Edward Curtis traces two successive generations of Syrian Muslims across small towns and cities in the Dakotas, Iowa, and Indiana.
Maria Ressa’s fight for democracy in the Philippines
The renowned journalist explores how the authoritarianism and corruption she has been fighting for 35 years are now aided and abetted by the internet.
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.
The journey to a lost Mennonite colony in Uzbekistan
Sofia Samatar’s memoir takes readers through a landscape of prismatic identities and wandering passions.
Cheap grace in South Africa
Eve Fairbanks traces the experiences of three South Africans to diagnose the country’s unrealized promises.
Departments
Images from Michael Petry’s Gifts of Apollo (top) and At the Foot of the Gods (bottom)
In Broker, petty thieves teach us to forgive
Checking (and rechecking) the weather
