We don’t need to debate the possibility of a reanimated corpse. We need to reimagine our whole understanding of the material world.
“We turn to Thurman, Bonhoeffer, Day, Heschel, and Niebuhr because they never let us forget the important questions.”
Sometimes it’s boring. Sometimes it’s thrilling. Sometimes it makes me cry.
When my arm is stretched out and blood is trickling out of me, I find myself thinking of Jesus.
The Sunday I decided to tell the truth about my miscarriage.
When did comfort become our highest aspiration?
What happens when one country believes it has the right to send troops into another country, impose its will, and abuse the rule of law?
My students and I are finding our way into the world again with Evagrius, Teresa of Ávila, and Howard Thurman.
Behind the resurgence of festivals and flags is a story of cultural change—and resistance to it.
Thomas might be the patron saint of a secular age.
Mary has no hand to clutch or shoulder to lean on.
Diving into the disciples’ grief invites us to be honest about our own.
In a pandemic, the practices associated with Maundy Thursday feel nearly transgressive.
What does the cross mean for people with disabilities?
David McLachlan proposes a participatory atonement in which God engages creation’s contingency and vulnerability.
Miriam, Esther, and other biblical non-mothers
Lisa Wilson Davison showcases women who thrive despite—and perhaps because of—their childfree state.
Why was the apostle Paul in prison so often?
Perhaps for the same reasons people are today.
American GIs and the chaplains who served them
Kurt Piehler reconstructs the lived religious experience of the World War II battlefield.
