Features
Donald McGavran’s complicated legacy
God’s whole body and ours
The scars of a flourishing human
Natural death and Christian love
When drug lords get saved
The Louisiana Standard Version
Believe your own eyes—and cultivate your moral perception
Voices
Phil Christman
Other people’s greatness
I want to be like David Lynch. And my pastor. And my wife. But there aren’t enough hours in the day.
Stephanie Saldaña
Looking out the window in wartime
We still have power: We can choose whether to give violence the last word.
Brian Bantum
Saved by bad art
As AI continues to proliferate, I’ve been inviting my students to create something—anything.
Kelly Brown Douglas
A house divided and indecent
The question is no longer just whether we can resolve our differences. It’s whether we still recognize one another’s basic humanity.
Stephanie Perdew
Reading scripture with Augustine
The bishop of Hippo isn’t just for JD Vance and Mike Johnson—and Bible studies aren’t just for evangelicals.
Rachel Mann
The great and terrible meaning of war
War is symbolic of humanity’s failure to live in the peaceable kingdom. Yet where there are humans there will always be a search for meaning.
Books
A. Muia writes like she’s inventing a new language
Her spellbinding novel in stories transforms Baja California into a dreamscape of violence, longing, and hard-won grace.
A rabbi’s unlikely path
Angela Buchdahl writes honestly about her accomplishments, her hardest moments, and the routine difficulties of showing up in Jewish spaces with a Korean face.
The faiths that formed the United States
The religious landscape of early America was far from homogenous, argues Matthew Sutton.
The sirens in our pockets
Three recent books share a common thread, one that echoes concerns anticipated by Marshall McLuhan. What’s at stake, they argue, is nothing short of our humanity.
The heist of Buncombe Street United Methodist Church
Will Willimon’s story of his childhood congregation contrasts the salt-of-the-earth people who formed him with the conservative minority that took over later.
Death work
Sarah Jobe puts testimonies from her fellow prison chaplains in conversation with Karl Barth’s work on reconciliation. Does resurrection matter in the face of state-sanctioned suffering?
The UFW march and the writing of Catholic history
On March 17, 1966, farmworkers marched to Sacramento in a procession replete with Stations of the Cross. Jeannine Hill Fletcher seeks to foreground them and others whose land, labor, and lives were effectively stolen in the name of Christ.
Departments
What we live for
Honest storytelling, rules for preaching, and more reader feedback
When Christians do unchristian things
