Features
The pedagogy of Ancient Aliens
A better response to the decline of the Christian West
Honoring the mothers of environmental justice
Anorexia in the communion line
Prayers rising past the immanent frame
What we think we know about God
An old man dreaming dreams of psalms
Preservation of church and planet
Voices
Julian DeShazier
Catharsis at church
The book of Ezra helped me realize how bad most congregations are at handling big emotions.
Alejandra Oliva
The brine of Christianity
I don’t go to church anymore, but the faith I was pickled in still shapes me.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
As a pastor, it’s my job to pay attention
In the Mennonite tradition, we are all priests. But I still have a particular role to play.
Philip Jenkins
A gospel that admits it’s a false prophecy
One of the most fascinating texts from early modern Europe is the Gospel of Barnabas.
Samuel Wells
Choosing solidarity with God
In a sense, I am asking my parishioners the same thing John Wesley asked: Are you going on?
Rachel Mann
Compassion makes us human
When we fail to be compassionate, the refrain “Well, we’re only human” is exactly wrong.
Books
Sister Holiday takes the heat
Margot Douaihy’s New Orleans is a fever dream. Her protagonist is a queer, punk nun who is all in on her vocation.
How secularism feels
Donovan Schaefer sets out to correct the misrepresentation of secularity as the realm of pure reason.
When Judaism became Judaism
Archaeologist Yonatan Adler argues that widespread, ordinary observance of the Torah did not take place until the Hellenistic period.
A war correspondent’s view of conflict in the US
Luke Mogelson turns his keen powers of observation on the worsening polarization in this country.
Earth martyrs
Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo makes readers question the depth of their own commitment to righteousness.
Intersex at Bible college
In telling a student’s story, Cynthia Vacca Davis captures the complicated nature of coming of age as an intersex person.
The gates of evangelicalism
Isaac Sharp traces the story of the groups that find themselves outside, pushed there by the conservative White men standing guard.
The unzoned city of God
Two new books help explain one of the main public policy drivers of the affordable housing crisis.
Departments
Karen Brummund’s Performing Harmony
Grain for the world
