My niece Butterfly has me thinking about bodies, love, and responsibility.
My parents arrived in the US with three suitcases and two toddlers. I’ve experienced wanderlust ever since.
She fled her homeland as a child. Years later, she forgave God.
Ecclesiastes as a one-man show
In Meaningless, Rodney Brazil brings Qoheleth to life.
Both his strengths and his failings are distinctly Catholic.
One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.
They’re selling marriage as a promise and a return on investment. It’s both misguided and genuinely appealing.
Some churches are starting the long process of reckoning with their role in the horrors of Indigenous boarding schools.
I stumbled upon a helpful book recently that sheds light on some of the more troubling myths of manliness.
The administration’s reaction to a classroom conflict reveals a deeper problem in higher ed.
What does it mean to protect women and girls?
Maybe immortality is about more than not being dead.
Sometimes we can’t express what we want, even when we are in desperate need.
We are as reliant on grace as our bodies are on water.
Marriage is an opportunity to keep working on the same story each day.
Clergy burnout happens when churches expect pastors to do everything and pastors oblige.
A murder mystery can provide sharp social commentary—and great fun.
Martha hears Jesus’ promise, but she has a brother whose body is starting to decay.
The light of the world illumines those who are open but is opaque to those who claim powerful position.
Water dominated the imaginations of our ancestors in faith, whose stories often called for either a canteen or galoshes.
Triumphalist uses of John 3:16 contradict the verse's historical context.
The voices of American poets
Edward Hirsch’s labor of love celebrates centuries of American verse, from Anne Bradstreet to Joy Harjo.
A self-emptying of privilege
Brandan Robertson grounds his discussion of Christians and privilege in the kenosis hymn of Philippians 2.
The theological anthropologies implicit in our politics
David Zahl maps the conservative/liberal binary according to distinctions between high and low anthropologies.
Why did conservative evangelicals turn against the environment?
It was mostly politics, argues historian Neall Pogue.
From hateful murmurs to blood libel
Heather Blurton explains the origins and legacy of an outrageous antisemitic lie: the fable of William of Norwich.
Is relating to God a fundamental need?
Biblical theologian Christa McKirland argues that it is.
A health-care system emergency
ER doctor Thomas Fisher writes with moral clarity—and a whiff of hopelessness.
David Bentley Hart’s apocalyptic view of tradition
Hart believes that John Henry Newman and those quick to invoke him rely too much on a gaze backward into the past.
