Features
Seeing with clarity
Feeling our way through climate change
What we could not see as beautiful
Luther Seminary’s death mask
Learning in pieces
The making of Islamophobia
Songs that call me home to Puerto Rico
Voices
Rachel Mann
Jesus and the wilderness of trans identity
I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.
Kelly Brown Douglas
The sacred testimony of Black joy
It’s a fugitive act, a form of resistance that creates freedom inside captivity.
Brian Bantum
Unrealized potential
It is time for men to embrace our capacity to care for people without applause.
Stephanie Saldaña
A great library of witnesses
Watching from Bethlehem, feeling helpless as the death toll rose in Gaza, I applied to go far away and do research.
Alejandra Oliva
Practicing patience in difficult times
I want to be able to take my days and transform them into beauty. This fall in Chicago, it has felt like time is running out.
Phil Christman
Abolish ICE, and don’t stop there
Law enforcement officers generally resist any attempt to bring them to heel, and they are usually successful.Books
Trained to disappear
Anna Rollins’s memoir examines purity culture, disordered eating, and the cost of being a good Christian girl.
The quest for a Black frontier world
Caleb Gayle tells the story of Edward McCabe, who sought to establish a Black state in the American West.
A Judaism primer for Christians
Tzvi Novick walks readers through Jewish practice, interfaith history, and the honest reckoning required for authentic relationship.
A harrowing account of Soviet imprisonment
Alexander Podrabinek’s memoir sheds light on the oppressive underbelly of Leonid Brezhnev’s premiership.
How can the Democrats catch up to Trump?
Joan Williams correctly diagnoses the party’s failures. I am less sure about her prescriptions.
When priests are sexual tourists
Kevin O’Neill uses the case study of a predatory Catholic priest shuffled to Guatemala to discuss provocative ideas about abuse and justice.
The pastor behind the myth
When Bonhoeffer stops being a symbol, he can start being a guide.
Augustine’s African heritage
Catherine Conybeare’s new biography reveals a bishop formed by two worlds, two languages, and a church struggling to define itself.
Departments
Blot out our offenses
Trible’s poetic feminism, theologically grounded justice work, and more reader feedback
Dangerous caricatures
