I tried it—and I began to experience God in places other than my head.
Scripture is filled with sexual violence. So, we learned, are our own lives.
Before you had a human parent, you had a perfect one.
They use Pharaoh’s tools to dismantle oppression.
My daughter wants to know. Even as a biblical scholar, I don’t have a good answer.
The conflation of Christianity and American patriotism has never done either one any favors.
Democracy is about membership in a local community. It can’t flourish without local journalism.
The word contagion comes from the Latin words for “with” and “touch.”
As the global population ages, it’s unclear what will bind people to faith.
God promises to build a bayit, a house. But not one with boundaries.
The gap in the lectionary’s account of the return of the Ark of the Covenant echoes a pattern we have seen too often in our country.
Living a simplified life in France
Eric Freeze and his family moved to Nice—in order to spend less and live better.
Rachel Gross wants to blur the distinction between Jewish culture and Jewish religion
Being Jewish goes beyond the synagogue.
Drawing close to Howard Thurman
Two new books invite us to learn from what others have loved about the civil rights icon.
When radical Latino activists occupied churches
Felipe Hinojosa profiles resistance movements from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when religion and politics were inextricably linked.
(Photo courtesy of the United Methodist Council of Bishops)