Features
The land mourns
Earth’s self-care
Can these stones live?
Ron Sider’s deep faith
Solidarity with student workers?
Rhymes across time
Talking to my Russian friends about Ukraine
Voices
Alejandra Oliva
The Night Pastor
I recently came across a record by 1960s Episcopal priest and jazz musician Robert Owen.
Jonathan Tran
Looking to heaven without looking past earth
In the Christian imagination, the two rightly go together.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
A church made of dust
After each service, I sweep up the dirt, specks of plastic, and tendrils of hair.
Yolanda Pierce
Failing and falling
At a workshop, I was asked to list my failures. The experience has stayed with me.
Samuel Wells
Three words that can unravel a marriage
And three to replace them with
Julian DeShazier
Who we can hear
Local leaders sometimes convene to try to stop the violence in Chicago. But whose voices are at the table?
Books
Drawing God
A graphic novel about the Hebrew God, a collection of cartoons about Jesus, and a comic strip about the Holy Ghost
Reconciliation or supersessionism?
Karma Ben-Johanan traces the troubled history
of Jewish-Christian relations after Vatican II.
The ER is a sacred space
Jay Baruch sees himself and other doctors as stewards of patients’ stories.
What does it mean to be a woman who doesn’t want children?
Erin Lane challenges maternal exceptionalism and its myths.
The American tradition of tearing down statues
Public monuments hold power. So does their destruction, says historian Erin Thompson.
A dinner party where women talk food
Alissa Wilkinson imagines Maya Angelou hosting Hannah Arendt, Octavia Butler, Laurie Colwin, and others.
Understanding homelessness at a citywide level
It’s a symptom of affluence more than poverty.
A theological exploration in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure book
Bethany Sollereder explores different approaches to understanding suffering—and enacts one.
Departments
Why print?
Danylo Movchan’s Mariupol (2022); Prayer (2022); Pain (2022)
Pride and Prejudice in a Speedo
News
As monkeypox spreads, faith networks mobilize to fight stigma
Documentary exposes struggle to decriminalize African religions in Brazil
A San Francisco supper club gives young people a chance to reinvent themselves
Influential Black theologian James Deotis Roberts dies at 95
Carmen Lansdowne elected United Church of Canada moderator
Christian Athlete Circles provides alternative space in sports
