Twelve-step groups have a rule against crosstalk. It’s a good rule for churches, too.
Well-aligned spokes make a bicycle wheel true. Truthful living gives a person credibility.
American military action hasn’t helped in the Middle East before. Why would it now?
I’ve never read Augustine’s City of God cover to cover. So I joined a Twitter experiment to help me get through it.
Christians in the Global South now dominate every major Protestant tradition—except one.
John 20:19–23
John 17:1–11
Luke 24:44–53
Pedagogy of the embodied
Mark Jordan shows us Aquinas—and God—in the flesh.
The hero of Trevor Noah’s story
If you think the Daily Show host is funny, you should meet his mother.
Questions in Genesis
A book of essays asks, is the Bible literature? How is a blessing like an oath? And what if Eve was just hungry?
Poems of witness
Molly McCully Brown recovers the lives of women at an institution notorious for its eugenics program.
A cure for liberalism?
John Milbank & Adrian Pabst consider Western society’s many problems and offer a prescription: virtue.
Macy Halford’s two worlds
A New Yorker staffer investigates the evangelical book that will not let her go.
When immigrants are demonized, how does the church respond?
What Christians did—and didn’t do—about the Japanese internment.
The many colors of betrayal
When does compromise descend into treason or apostasy?
A president walks into a Buddhist purgatory
The new George Saunders novel turns a crazy idea into a deeply moving story.
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Preaching in the promised land
After the Great Migration, some black preachers addressed the issues their white social-gospel counterparts avoided.
Mary Magdalene is every woman
Marie Howe’s poems present Magdalene in many forms, contemporary and ancient.
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
The line between here and there
Two novels explore what happens when wars persist and borders are permeable.
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Take & read: Old Testament
An annotated list of the best new titles
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Take & read: Theology
An annotated list of the best new titles
Laughing at what’s not funny
Like Jason Micheli, I have incurable cancer. His book helped me find humor in it.
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Take & read: Ethics
An annotated list of the best new titles