Features
Peter Spier’s picture books praise the world
Who gets to define American Muslim identity?
Civility is fraught. Jokes are better.
Katie Geneva Cannon raised up black women’s voices for the sake of church and world
Voices
M. Craig Barnes
Funerals make me miss being a parish pastor
Standing at the graveside with the last lingering family members, time seems thick.
Kathryn Reklis
In Leave No Trace, American life fails a veteran and his daughter
Debra Granik's film is a masterful familial drama—and much more.
Books
How should Christians face climate change?
We've moved on from the question of whether we should care.
Putting clergy health in perspective
Pastors and their complex relationship with their work—and with themselves
James Comey didn’t write a tell-all. He wrote a handbook.
What does ethical leadership look like?
Why Roxane Gay resists the conversion narrative
Sexual violence doesn't always allow its survivors to claim redemption.
Departments
Funerals make me miss being a parish pastor
The Last Supper, by Domenico Ghirlandaio
In Leave No Trace, American life fails a veteran and his daughter
Repenting for sexual abuse isn't a distraction from the church's work
News
Anya Krugovoy Silver, poet, dies at age 49
“Making meaning out of suffering and loss,” Silver wrote, is “one of poetry’s most fundamental aims.”
Aretha Franklin influenced sacred and secular music
Franklin, who died at 76, embodied “the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R & B, rock and roll.”
Muslim minorities targeted amid Chinese crackdown on religion
Thousands of Hui Muslims gathered at a mosque to prevent its demolition.
California churches address housing crisis
Amid rising homelessness, congregations are building affordable housing.
Israel’s Druze minority galvanizes opposition to nation-state law
Participation in high-profile mass protest was a departure for the Druze, who are celebrated in Israel for their patriotism and military service.
Catholics and lawmakers respond to Pennsylvania report on clergy sexual abuse
Pope Francis wrote, "We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them."
Museum of the Bible returns stolen Gospels manuscript
The museum is investigating the origins of 3,000 artifacts in its collection.
Katie Geneva Cannon, groundbreaking womanist ethicist and theologian, dies at age 68
Teaching was her ministry.