Features
Getting to yes on paid family leave
Pastors, like everyone else, need paid family and medical leave
When my dad killed God
Is God still dead?
My mother said she was pro-life—and worked at Planned Parenthood
A letter to my Black daughter after the fall of Roe
When abortion is mere abstraction
Fantasy and reality after Roe
Voices
Samuel Wells
Three reasons progressive Christians shouldn’t give up on conversion
Is it the baby or the bathwater?
Philip Jenkins
My last note from the global church
This specialized column made more sense 14 years ago than it does now.
Books
A prophetic word against neoliberalism
It runs our lives while pretending it isn’t there, says Rodney Clapp. He is having none of it.
Can you like Dostoevsky?
Philosopher and linguist Julia Kristeva asks but does not answer this question about the Russian novelist’s complex work.
Animal midrash
Jewish scholar Laura Duhan-Kaplan opens our eyes to biblical birds, insects, and mammals.
Billy Graham’s transatlantic brand
America’s pastor stepped into a historical moment framed by the Cold War and secularization.