We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “indulgence.”
The Red Sea, the baptistery, and the birth canal
Antiblackness is outrageous, but it does not have the last word.
Making work a prerequisite for benefits is costly, inefficient, and ineffective.
A church on my street fed food-insecure kids while schools were closed. The work of justice flowed outward from the table.
What do we miss when we seclude ourselves on safe shores of sameness?
Is Jamie Quatro’s novel really about marital infidelity?
Maybe Fire Sermon is more fundamentally a parable about religion.
Zadie Smith leaves no cultural stone unturned
Smith's collection of essays considers the self as an improvised response to language and the world.
The White House said agencies and executive departments that do not have a faith-based office will have a designated liaison to the new initiative.
A clergy group formed supporting a rabbi in the ski resort town of Whitefish, where white supremacist groups targeted her and other local Jewish people.
A coalition of Muslim students highlighting the Jewish roots in Moroccan culture, and an evangelical pastor and imam creating a nationwide grassroots network are among those partnering against extremism.
Israel's government has offered financial incentives for thousands of asylum seekers to leave the country voluntarily—threatening to detain or deport them if they didn't.
The bishops recommended removing prohibitions on same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy in the global denomination's Book of Discipline—while allowing new regional rules.
With fewer people carrying cash, churches plan to use special card readers for collecting fees and the offering.
The author of The Once and Future Church was part of the shift to looking at congregations in their contexts—not just the church in general.
Patricia A. Davenport and Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld will each lead a regional body in the predominantly white mainline Protestant denomination.