“My mama was womanist. My grandma is womanist. Just because they don’t have the language or the identifier doesn’t make them less womanist.”
This acknowledgment is at the heart of Christianity.
People fear the impact of difficult books. They aren’t entirely wrong.
On Fridays in the church basement, I see glimpses of something precarious and beautiful.
Watching the Pixar movie alongside Euphoria and Yellowjackets made me appreciate the exuberant intensity of Mei’s embodiment.
The Spirit-driven tendency to undermine barriers goes all the way back to Peter and Paul.
I want to know why grace was extended to the Philippian jailer but not the slave.
Like the disciples at the ascension, we need a little help with interpretation.
An ode to Daniel Berrigan
Bill Wylie-Kellerman’s patchwork of poetry, prophecy, and prose reads like a modern Gospel.
Jhumpa Lahiri’s new book crosses boundaries
It doesn’t matter what genre Translating Myself and Others is. What matters is that it is irresistibly immersive.
What do Reinhold Niebuhr's blind spots tell us about our own?
How do we cope with intractable loss?
When Frank Bruni suffered permanent vision damage, he embarked on a philosophical quest.
Take & Read: Old Testament
Four new books about the women of Hebrew scripture
Take & Read: Ethics
Four new books that are shaping conversations about ethics
Take & Read: Theology
Five new books that address today’s theological challenges
Rowan Williams weaves theological reflection and poetry into drama
Shakeshafte and Other Plays explores the messiness of language and meaning.
What is the church’s true crisis of decline?
It’s probably not what you think.
We need to stop talking about “good” and “bad” neighborhoods
Both Sheryll Cashin and Yelena Bailey investigate the scandalous inequalities between city neighborhoods.
Reading Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic novel with Christian eyes
Ofelia Ortega does theology to empower women
And she does it in an unmistakable Caribbean accent that embraces, hugs, kisses, dances, cries, and rumbles out laughter.
The irony of banning a book about how we can’t escape our history.
Lawrence Jackson’s memoir tells a story of location shaped by race
Baltimore—from Frederick Douglass to Freddie Gray—informs his whole journey.
A New Testament that connects the heart languages of First Nations people
The translators hope that “the colonial language that was forced upon us can now serve our people in a good way.”
A robot learns to be a child
The central character of Kazuo Ishiguro’s virtuosic 2021 novel is an “Artificial Friend” with a young girl’s body.
