Features
Body shaming tears apart the body of Christ
Read the Rape of Tamar, and pay attention to the verbs
Women of the Bible say #MeToo
My church changed when ICE took one of our own
Books
Women's rights, disability rights
Abortion, Down syndrome, and the question of prenatal testing
Democracy is always fragile
Protecting it requires all of us.
The silence of focused attention
Erling Kagge fears that the practice of stillness is endangered.
How the culture wars made Trump
The demons of the white evangelical past
In the Fearless Dialogues movement, people try to truly see each other
Gregory Ellison II's book evokes the sort of honest conversations he has been convening.
Departments
The wall my daughter can’t get past
The Polish far right's complicated relationship with the Catholic church
Prayer that makes hard hearts softer
The United States of Gun, by L. Scooter Morris
The Supreme Court finally rejected the Japanese internment—in the course of upholding Trump's Muslim travel ban
News
Daniel Lehmann to be first Jewish president of Graduate Theological Union
The consortium in Berkeley, California, includes research centers and seminaries of multiple faith traditions—but has been previously led by Christians.
Beth LaNeel Tanner becomes dean at New Brunswick Theological Seminary
She will continue as professor of Old Testament at the school, one of two Reformed Church in America seminaries.
Fidon Mwombeki to lead All Africa Conference of Churches
Mwombeki, a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, will head the largest association of Protestant, Orthodox, and indigenous churches in Africa.
Church's Nativity scene protests family detention
Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis has statues of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph behind a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.
In Europe, religious minorities face mounting hostility, harassment
Nationalism and anti-immigrant movements have gained ground.
U.S. travel ban leaves far-flung Syrian family in limbo
Dahouk al-Omar has been hoping to be reunited with a son in Chicago. Now it's uncertain whether that will ever be possible.
Proposed Christian law school reconsiders sexual conduct restrictions after Canadian court ruling
Law societies denied accreditation to the program at Trinity Western University, an evangelical school in British Columbia, citing its community covenant as discriminating against LGBTQ applicants.
Dutch Parliament approves limited ban on burqa, niqab
Only a few hundred women in the Netherlands wear face-covering veils, studies suggest.
King of Jordan wins Templeton Prize for fostering Muslim, interfaith cooperation
The Templeton foundation praised Abdullah II for building on "the power of principled pluralism."