A visit to three congregations around Austin, Texas
“If we don’t understand the Judaism of Jesus’ time, how can we understand him and his message?”
In Torah, the stranger appears as a guest to be welcomed, not a problem to be solved.
Why do we forgive him so much more easily than migrants today?
Ever since the women at the tomb learned that Jesus was “going ahead,” we’ve been trying to catch up.
God called all of them good. Humans are rapidly destroying them.
They’re my students and colleagues. I want to talk with them, not about them.
Future historians will identify the past quarter century as a time of real excitement and innovation.
Sometimes the terror we know is more tolerable than the peace we can’t imagine.
To know any truth about God, we must be drawn into the life of the Trinity. But how?
A DNA test and its aftermath
Even as a child, Dani Shapiro wondered whether she belonged in her family.
The “Christian century” and the people who lived it
Brian Stanley pulls off a readable, one-volume history of 20th-century Christianity.
Ethical hacks for managing our adolescent technologies
Kate Ott looks at the moral implications of digital language.
The spirit of Madeleine L’Engle
Sarah Arthur captures the beloved Christian author’s appeal.
The 1,044-year-old Al-Azhar University seeks to reach Muslims globally through its website and social media, combating extremist ideology.
Across Ukraine congregations are debating whether to join the recently created, independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine—or remain affiliated with the Moscow patriarch.
Varanasi has been defined by its maze of narrow alleyways, palaces, homes, and centuries-old temples.
Until the past two years, Burkina Faso had long been known for interreligious peaceful co-existence.
Through the L’Arche network of communities and his books, he lifted up the brokenness of people with and without developmental disabilities—and their potential for transformation.
She pointed toward a God who loves us in ways we can’t yet comprehend.
Vanier found fullness of life in those snatched from despair and placed in homes based on mutuality, respect, and care.
Evans’s books A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and Inspired traced the evolution of her faith.