Features
What churches don’t remember
Reading Aquinas’s five proofs as a trans man
What kind of man will I be when the world burns?
Deliverance for oppressed and oppressor
Provoked by hope
Showing up as clergy
For all peoples
Voices
Rachel Mann
Holy uprising
I’ve long seen the ascension story as an absurdity. John Donne helps me see it as a revolution.
Peter Choi
The room next door to faith
I am learning that questioning religion is not the same as abandoning it.
Julian DeShazier
In the valley of echoes
People often respond not to the person in front of them but to reverberations from the past.
Phil Christman
The Trump era makes me miss wokeness
I didn’t think this would happen so soon.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Has worship become a luxury good?
As working-class stability erodes, congregations are quietly remaking themselves in the image of the middle class.
Benjamin J. Dueholm
The dangers of institutional neglect
How often do we think about the Holy Roman Empire?
Books
A desert liturgy in verse
Poet Diana Woodcock blends Muslim and Christian sensibilities into a devotional reckoning with a wounded planet.
Trending topics: Metamorphosis
Five new books about astonishing transformations
A vampire and a Lutheran pastor in Blackfeet country
Stephen Graham Jones’s theologically inflected horror novel just might be his masterpiece.
A sister’s keeper, a sister’s witness
Kathleen Norris traces her sister’s life with disability, honoring both the challenges of caregiving and the quiet, sustaining presence of love.
Trending topics: Abortion stories
Five recently published books that tell stories of abortions from the perspectives of those who have had them
A masterful survey of American religious history
Thomas Tweed offers a bold new benchmark for scholars, with an expansive scope across 11 millennia and far beyond Protestantism.
The minds and money behind MAGA
Books by Laura Field and Jacob Silverman expose how right-wing intellectuals and tech billionaires have joined forces to dismantle the democratic order.
Trending topics: Gaza
Four new books that shed light on the war in Gaza
Not homeless enough to count
Brian Goldstone shows how America’s housing system renders five working families in Atlanta invisible even as they teeter on the brink of collapse.
Seeing Christ’s image in Orthodox women
Ashley Marie Purpura explores the Eastern church’s androcentrism—and finds resources to counter it from within the tradition.
The Black Madonna and the church’s imagination
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones argues that to name Mary as Black is to challenge Christianity’s complicity in colonization and to claim sacred Blackness.
Rethinking atonement with an emphasis on trust
In her third book on trust, Teresa Morgan argues that it is what empowers us to turn away from wrongdoing and suffering and toward God.
Departments
Eight guidelines for preaching in partisan times
“Progressive” Christianity, adoption, and more reader feedback
The brutal ax of capitalism
