Features
I was a scribe for the Chicago Illuminated Scripture Project
Billy Graham and Barack Obama each offered a pastoral voice in a time of tragedy
What we lost when the funeral home replaced the home funeral
Grieving my daughter’s suicide in a time of wider grief
My dad died from COVID-19. My grief is a lonely one.
How do we grieve the hundreds of thousands of people the COVID-19 pandemic has killed?
Voices
Isaac S. Villegas
Mary’s song reveals her politics of mercy
I think Jesus learned his prophetic ministry from his mother.
Kathryn Reklis
Ted Lasso is the soccer coach we all need
What if kindness, honesty, and compassion were valued more than winning?
Books
The Old Testament, the Tanakh, and the Hebrew Bible
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text.
Journeying with Father Dan and a coyote along the via negativa
Daniel Hornsby’s debut novel has a wonderful road-trippy feeling.
When religion thrived in New York
Jon Butler’s dazzling study of faith and practice in a 20th-century metropolis
Departments
Mary’s song reveals her politics of mercy
Looking to Advent as we grieve our COVID-19 dead
Ted Lasso is the soccer coach we all need
George H. W. Bush’s letter to Bill Clinton was a model of respect and solidarity
“I Can’t Breathe,” by Carl Dixon
News
Religious diversity in the election
A more conservative court hears same-sex foster parent case
Church coalitions in Deep South partner on racial reconciliation
Study finds that young queer people quit organized religion almost twice as much as others
In Nashville, a former Catholic school-turned-swingers club is reborn as a homeless shelter
Influential British rabbi Jonathan Sacks dies at 72
Gospel music legend Rance Allen dies at 71
