Features
To forgive is exclusively divine
Christian life in The School of Athens
In search of Rumi’s live heart
Repairing the redlined body of Christ
“God is my fire”
Voices
Alejandra Oliva
Annie Dillard in spring
Each March, I find my thoughts returning to Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Jonathan Tran
Days of wanting
My family didn’t want to go to America at all; we left Vietnam on pain of death.
Yolanda Pierce
Showing up for church when I don’t want to
When I show up, God shows up—although not always in the sermon.
Rachel Mann
Speaking of death
Christians have an opportunity to eschew euphemisms and talk honestly about mortality.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Spending Lent with people in recovery
In the company of church members in recovery from addiction, I’m feeling more open to the doctrine of original sin.
Samuel Wells
Faith, hope, love, and AI
Our different responses to artificial intelligence point to different stories—and different Christian virtues.
Books
A refugee’s lonely heart
Beth Nguyen’s second memoir is a deep dive into the void of a mother’s absence and the silence surrounding it.
De-commodifying time
Jenny Odell argues that we need to get back in touch with our preindustrial sense of time.
Pentecostals laboring in the field
Lloyd Barba shows how Mexican farmworkers established a viable life in the face of California’s industrial agriculture machine.
Social gospel heroes?
Janine Drake identifies ulterior motives in the church’s collaboration with labor in the early 20th century.
What is forgiveness?
Myisha Cherry and Matthew Ichihashi Potts each challenge a new American mythology.
A glimpse of the world beyond
In his new novella, Jon Fosse allows a luminous narrative to unfold at a dreamlike pace.
Stories of hope amid the climate crisis
In this edited volume, the focus is on actions that have yielded significant results.
Departments
Oluwaseyi Alade’s Pilate Washes His Hands
School dress codes that do harm
