Features
Advent in all its terror
The night the universe looked back at me
A theology of impossible cheeseburger pie
Gifts you can read
Training faith leaders to work against suicide
Pastors in exile
DHS is lying about us
The blasphemy of national Christianity
Voices
Rachel Mann
Hope lets go
To grow into Christ’s likeness is to step away from power and toward failure.
Debie Thomas
Christ in my nerve endings
Living with chronic pain is deepening my understanding of the incarnation.
Brian Bantum
I keep listening for the chorus
My partial hearing loss is teaching me about Advent waiting and finding my place in God’s song.
Isaac S. Villegas
The heft of a pulpit Bible
As I pressed my sermon’s pages across the book’s valley, I couldn’t keep them from sliding into the groove.
Julian DeShazier
Learning from people who can’t quit
Musicians never stop being musicians. I hope it’s the same for justice seekers.
Kelly Brown Douglas
What history are we making?
I remember when my son first asked me what history is. I told him it’s the story we write with our lives.
Books
When ableism and racism intertwine
Black autistic pastor and disability scholar Lamar Hardwick shows how ideas around race and disability can cost people their lives.
The social gospel of the streets
Sean Dempsey traces the moral imagination that guided faith-based activists in Los Angeles through five decades of justice work.
The relief people need
David Zahl focuses on sharing a gospel that’s unapologetically about the grace of God.
Where God waits in line
In 2019, Cristina Rathbone immersed herself in a tent camp at the border in Juárez, Mexico.
Who gets to define Christianity?
David Congdon links postliberal theology to the exclusionary politics of the Christian right.
Apocalypses all around us
Martha Park unearths surprising connections between the natural and the supernatural, the material and the ineffable.
A Christian case against capitalism
Liberals, writes Phil Christman, accept the political need to keep liberal billionaires happy. Leftists don’t think there should be any billionaires.
Departments
I’m dreaming of a disarmed faith
Facing fascism
