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August 2025

Volume 142, Issue #8
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Features

Interviews

Science is finally catching up with Teilhard de Chardin

Frank and Mary Frost, the filmmakers behind a recent PBS documentary about the Jesuit paleontologist, have long seen him as a true visionary.
Interview by Jessica Mesman

Apache Stronghold’s rooted resistance

The fight to protect Oak Flat is not just about a single holy site. It is about recovering our bond with the land.
by Tim Nafziger
photo of Craig Dykstra

Craig Dykstra saw things afresh

The longtime Lilly Endowment vice president’s impact is felt in the hospitable spaces he cultivated, the disciplined reflection he nurtured, and the ripple effects of a life well lived. 
by L. Gregory Jones

Walter Brueggemann’s gift of disruption

In his hands, the Bible was a living, aching, burning thing.
by Jason G. Edwards

An accomplished soldier, fired for no reason

Sergeant First Class Kate Cole isn’t an activist. She isn’t a radical. She’s a trans woman, a rock climber, and my friend—and after 17 years of military service, Trump kicked her out.
by Anna Keating

Trump’s imperial golden age

Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to the Romans.
by Presian Renee Burroughs

Voices

Sketch of Phil Christman

Phil Christman

The case for being a killjoy

We may be reluctant to say anything that sounds puritanical. But our private morality really does matter.

Illustration of Kelly Brown Douglas

Kelly Brown Douglas

A sanctuary for banned stories

When truth is being cast as lies, the sacred work of storytelling is urgent.

Books

Jack Caputo’s insistent, nonexistent God

According to the radical theologian, “God’s essence is in our hands.”

by Jesse Lava

Evangelical idols and ideologies

In their new books, Mike Cosper and Jeff Mikels critique evangelicalism from within.  Do they go far enough?

by Jon Mathieu

Encountering art and encountering God

For theologian Judith Wolfe, imagination is a necessary part of how we know the Divine.

by Lauren F. Winner

Departments

From the Editors

The desecration of Oak Flat

Idolatry rarely turns out well for people—or for the rest of creation.
Screen Time

Looking for healing in “the pitt”

The ER in Scott Gemmill’s medical drama is a virus-infected Petri dish of all that ails the body politic.
by Kathryn Reklis

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