Features
How I became religiously multiple
Tenderness under pressure
Science is finally catching up with Teilhard de Chardin
Apache Stronghold’s rooted resistance
Craig Dykstra saw things afresh
Walter Brueggemann’s gift of disruption
An accomplished soldier, fired for no reason
Trump’s imperial golden age
Voices
Stephanie Perdew
The shelter of fabric
I gravitate toward Jesus’ instructions to provide food. I tend to gloss over the verses about clothing.
Rachel Mann
Living from the wounded side
Christ’s pierced body helps me understand my own.
Brian Bantum
Why make things?
I couldn’t afford a nice bookshelf, and I couldn’t bring myself to buy a cheap one. So I headed to the hardware store.
Phil Christman
The case for being a killjoy
We may be reluctant to say anything that sounds puritanical. But our private morality really does matter.
Kelly Brown Douglas
A sanctuary for banned stories
When truth is being cast as lies, the sacred work of storytelling is urgent.
Books
Sola natura
Richard Higgins offers a remarkably full account of Henry David Thoreau’s ever-evolving faith.
A diary of small apocalypses
In Charlotte Wood’s novel, an atheist is driven by climate despair to an isolated convent, where she grapples with layers of grief.
A history of muscular Christianity in the US
Paul Putz traces the influence of evangelicalism on sports, from the birth of the YMCA to Colin Kaepernick.
Christology without supersessionism
Chris Green invites Christians to a humbler reading of scripture—one that listens, learns, and refuses to displace Israel’s voice.
Jack Caputo’s insistent, nonexistent God
According to the radical theologian, “God’s essence is in our hands.”
Evangelical idols and ideologies
In their new books, Mike Cosper and Jeff Mikels critique evangelicalism from within. Do they go far enough?
Encountering art and encountering God
For theologian Judith Wolfe, imagination is a necessary part of how we know the Divine.
Departments
The apology deficit
The desecration of Oak Flat
