We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Feet.”
The Qur’an is not a description of God. It’s a call to conversion.
At the heart of life is the mess of being stuck with other people.
Like the sludge on a car in the winter, most of our messes accumulate gradually.
Trump’s new policies are creating confusion and misery.
As a child, I testified every Sunday morning. I can’t do it anymore.
A white woman, her black husband, and the struggle to be known
Like Nicodemus, Kanye shows that the Spirit blows where it chooses.
The devil is testing Jesus. Jesus is also testing the devil.
Every year, we repeat this dusty choreography.
What makes an American home?
A literary look at the walls that protect us—and keep us captive
Brian Doyle’s rivers of words
A new collection of Doyle’s nonfiction overflows with wonder.
Pope Francis’s vision of a wounded church converted by mercy
How can the church become less of a citadel and more of a field hospital?
Learning to face the doctrine of discovery
I wish I’d had Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah’s book when I was in college.