Features
Nicene myths
Black Church is my mother tongue
Tolkien 2.0
Evangelical fantasies in Amish country
The wisdom of Earthseed
In Martin Marty’s classroom
Martin Marty’s unfinished conversations
Voices
Alejandra Oliva
Longing for faith with Marilynne Robinson
Her essays present a Christianity that sits comfortably with mystery, that reaches out to neighbors as well as up toward God.
Julian DeShazier
The church has a DEI problem
We love diversity. That doesn’t mean we’re willing to make room for difference.
Isaac S. Villegas
Resurrection, then breakfast
Jesus conquers death so he can come back and enjoy another meal, lingering with his friends for as long as he can.
Stephanie Perdew
We are not living in a postcolonial world
Many church folk use the word decolonization while ignoring its only goal: returning Indigenous lands to Indigenous hands.
Peter Choi
Making old things new
Great artists know that the past provides essential ingredients for the future. Jacob Collier exemplifies this. So does Jesus.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
The US media is biased against Palestinians
Compassion compels us to remember people journalists choose to forget.
Books
Nzadi Keita’s poems about a “first gen North-born” Black woman
Keita has written a stunning collection about growing up in a working-class Black family in 1960s Philadelphia.
Trending topics: Literary bestiaries
Assistant editor Jasmin Pittman reviews five new books.
The flavors of Bethlehem
Fadi Kattan’s cookbook is the story of a city told through its food. It’s also a quiet testament to faith.
The gods present their arguments
David Bentley Hart imagines Eros, Hephaistos, Hermes, and Psyche coming out of retirement to debate contemporary philosophy and science.
Trending topics: Sexual assault and the church
Senior editor Jessica Mesman reviews four new books.
The ocean’s infinite game
Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that exists underwater.
Beyond the whore, the angel, and the shrew
Gila Fine shows how the Talmud both upholds and subverts classic archetypes for female characters.
White supremacy and the Latino vote
Journalist Paola Ramos takes a nuanced look at the world of right-wing Latinos, revealing the logic behind their ideology.
Playing the holy fool
Laurel Mathewson introduces new readers to Teresa of Ávila—and to the famed saint’s trustworthy spirituality.
Police reform in Minneapolis and beyond
Sociologist Michelle Phelps analyzes the racial and political factors in reform efforts both before and after George Floyd’s murder.
The wild earth and its consolations
The Mourner’s Bestiary is part memoir, part illness narrative, and part ecological treatise.
Writing from both sides of the economic divide
Sarah Smarsh brings her sharp reporting skills to her family’s history of rural poverty.
Departments
The Trump administration’s disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil is chilling
When nice guys are dangerous
