Features
The faith of an empire
The future of dying?
The social failure behind assisted suicide
Afro-pessimism and Christian hope
Can this far-right Christian militia de-radicalize?
Escape to Mars?
Music during wartime
What does AI reveal about creation and vocation?
Voices
Kelly Brown Douglas
The whole, contradictory truth
Martin Luther King Jr. worked to expose the distance between what the United States professed and what it practiced.
Benjamin J. Dueholm
Black holes and supernovas
One kind of pastor collapses everything into themself. The other expands until they forget where they started.
Rachel Mann
Holy impatience
I’m tired of waiting for justice. But I am learning to face a world coming to an end with the gift of God who is World Without End.
Stephanie Saldaña
Strangers no more
The compassion of Iraqi and Syrian migrants I’ve met has transformed me—and challenged my vocabulary.
Phil Christman
An agnostic who out-Christianed the Christians
The 19th-century orator Robert Ingersoll denied God. But his answer to the question of human purpose strikes me as a pretty good one.
Stephanie Perdew
American Decius
The Roman emperor staged a patriotic revival to win back the gods’ favor. The empire fell anyway.
Books
A 21st-century Metaphysical poet
D. S. Martin’s new collection brilliantly exploits his bond with the poems of John Donne.
Angels and fascists in 1939 London
Francis Spufford’s time-traveling fantasy asks what we’d sacrifice to rewrite the past.
Thirteen seasons
Daniel Cooperrider trades the four seasons for the less familiar lunar calendar, stepping into the rhythm of creation.
Digging in the Alabama dirt
Alexis Okeowo lovingly turns over their home state’s history as one might dig through the layers of a land plot.
Putting a price on Indigenous lives
William Kiser’s sweeping history tracks three centuries of bounty hunters paid to kill and mutilate Native Americans.
Hope is mandatory
Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s son Hersh was held captive in Gaza for 332 days before Hamas killed him. Her memoir of grief is also about the faith that has helped her endure it.
Religious scripts for dying
Travis Pickell explores the moral burden placed on those who face end-of-life medical decisions but lack communal support.
The graven image of growth
Practical theologian Andrew Root believes churches are bowing to the never-ending demand for production.
Migration as care
Gabrielle Oliveira’s ethnographic study analyzes US immigration policy by centering the voices of children and educators.
Departments
Rhythms of life
What is a Zionist?
