Features
Character: Essays by readers
The wonder of homegrown potatoes
What two pastors from novels taught me about incarnational presence
Why churches still matter for immigration reform
Voices
M. Craig Barnes
What I learned from our seminary's conflict about hosting Tim Keller
At times, the cost of theological diversity is painfully clear.
Kathryn Reklis
Speaking truth to power in Beatriz at Dinner and Fargo
The characters Beatriz and Gloria model resistance against powerful, immoral blowhards.
Books
Where are the dead?
Leonard DeLorenzo helps us envision where our loved ones have gone and how we relate to them.
The emotional wisdom of irrational Christians
Ken Evers-Hood applies behavioral economic theories to Jesus—and the people who follow him.
The role of county prosecutors in mass incarceration
John Pfaff's Locked In adds to what we've learned from Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.
Paradox at the heart of poetry
The Still Pilgrim—seemingly Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's alter ego—reflects joy and longing.
Departments
What I learned from our seminary's conflict about hosting Tim Keller
Moses and the Burning Bush, mural in Dura-Europos, Syria
On being white
Speaking truth to power in Beatriz at Dinner and Fargo
News
DIAKONIA World Federation reelects president at global gathering
Sandy Boyce's talk, “Visions for the Future,” encouraged following the example of the pastor who founded the modern deaconess movement.
Collars on the Corner offers prayers on the streets of Milwaukee
Ecumenical clergy reach their neighbors where they are—outside of church buildings.
Researchers identify author of tenth-century biblical text
The ancient codex contains Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings.
After Trinity Lutheran, a state court case looks at public funds being given to churches
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Missouri case may affect a court in New Jersey looking at similar questions of church-state separation.
Metal detectors at Jerusalem Temple Mount cause clashes
Thousands of Muslims prayed in alleys and streets rather than inside Al-Aqsa Mosque. Then police used force against demonstrators.
Eritrean Orthodox leader continues to be detained after a decade
Patriarch Antonios, who is 90 and has diabetes, has been denied medical care.
Minister renounces ordination with Southern Baptists, seeing racism in denomination
Lawrence Ware's tipping point was a recent debate over a resolution to disavow white supremacy.
Muslim refugees to U.S. have decreased in 2017
Christians made up the majority of refugees admitted to the U.S. in the first five full months of the Trump administration.