I might or might not be invited back. Either way, there’s no lasting harm.
When I asked her why, she talked about another role model: Pauli Murray.
Here in Oregon, the consequences of our actions are burning all around us.
My five-year-old parishioner spent the summer going door to door.
When they are, the result can be deadly.
We know how to wield a sword, but nobody taught us how to cultivate a field.
What’s replacing it?
Is our story of struggle also one of faith, hope, and love?
Eight upside-down blessings for a pandemic world
Danusha Laméris’s new book is filled with small kindnesses
A luminous poetry collection marked by joy and sorrow, humor and truth.
Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five books that take readers beyond Anglophone perspectives
Eddie Glaude revisits James Baldwin’s America
Begin Again’s call to repentance is, like Baldwin’s own language, substantially Christian.
Yaa Gyasi’s beautiful novel embraces faith that changes and grows
Transcendent Kingdom explores an immigrant neuroscientist’s complicated relationship with evangelical Christianity.
Take & Read: New Testament
Has Paul been unfairly judged?
Nine writers tell us about a book they’ve read recently that’s helped them reframe what it means to be a person of faith and a reader right now.
Lyz Lenz’s midrash on pregnancy and motherhood
Lenz blends storytelling and critique to explore the role of myths in defining women’s bodies.
Take & Read: American religious history
Four new books that explore Black Americans’ religious witness
Willie Jennings’s plea to create a new kind of theologian
After Whiteness is urgent reading for any institution that purports to care about God and race.
Marilynne Robinson’s new Gilead novel makes Jack Boughton make sense
Everything in Jack is a marvel.
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five books that introduce new voices to the conversation
Douglas Ottati’s liberal piety
The theologian starts by recognizing that we know enough to live fully in response to God’s grace.
N. T. Wright and Walter Brueggemann look to the Bible for wisdom during the pandemic
They both resist easy answers to the problem of suffering.
Michael Cohen’s tell-all about Trump is mostly about himself
The moral lessons of his humiliation and imprisonment seem fairly limited.
