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February 23, 2022

Volume 139, Issue #4

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Features

What happens when Mormon women are called to ordained ministry?

Talking with five former LDS members who left to go to seminary

by David Howlett and Nancy Ross

Interviews

A new lectionary that centers women

“If the gospel isn’t good news to the women in the passage, is it still good news?”

Grace Ji-Sun Kim interviews Wil Gafney

Evolutionary science meets evangelical faith

How teachers are helping students accept science without losing their religion

by Dean Nelson

First Person

The Dominican friars whose library is transforming Islamic studies

How a rare books collection in Cairo expanded into a center for scholarship and interfaith conversation

by David A. Hoekema

The Chair and the collapse of the humanities

Who, exactly, should preside over meaning-making?

by Claire Miller Colombo

Books

Rescuing faith from scientific imperialism

Kara Slade’s scathing yet incisive volume abounds with examples of modern hubris.

by J. Scott Jackson

Catholic acts of mercy during the AIDS crisis

Michael O’Loughlin paints a vivid portrait of the complex, compassionate, and sometimes daring ways individual Catholics responded.

by Aaron Klink

Joseph de Maistre’s magnum opus is still perplexing after 200 years

Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg has often been dismissed as propaganda. It isn’t.

by Nathan J. Ristuccia

Tutu the mystic

Michael Battle’s biography focuses on the archbishop’s religious moorings.

by Charles Scriven

Departments

Faith Matters

Lent beckons like an open door

For 40 days, we contend with our mortality so that we might know what it means to live.

by Debra Dean Murphy

First Words

What does it mean to be a Christian plumber?

Most of us have nouns in common; it’s the adjectives that divide us.

by Peter W. Marty

On Art

Parables of Luke triptych, by Charalambos Epaminonda

Three paintings, acrylic on canvas, of the prodigal son, the sower of seed, and the good Samaritan make up this triptych by Greek Cypriot artist Charalam...

art selection and comment by John Kohan

Screen Time

Station Eleven and the purpose of art

With the world as they knew it gone, the characters remake the world from the resources they carry inside them.

by Kathryn Reklis

From the Editors

Why should we care about what’s happening to the Uyghurs?

Chamath Palihapitiya’s question is worth taking seriously.

News

Princeton Theological Seminary removes slaveholder name from chapel

Princeton Theological Seminary’s board has unanimously voted to dissociate the name of slaveholder and anti-abolitionist Samuel Miller from the school’s chapel....

by Kathryn Post

Famed medieval Jewish woman recognized with new statue

She was one of the most wealthy financiers of her day, known to the kings of England and described as the most important Jewish woman of medieval England. She was also brutally murdered in what may have been a 13th-century hate crime....

by Catherine Pepinster