Features
The slow work of dialogue
In Gaza, water is life
Voices
Jonathan Tran
God or basketball?
Which one has a greater hold on my heart? Let’s take a look.
Brian Bantum
Can inclusive churches grow and thrive?
When my spouse’s church became more affirming, the major givers left.
Philip Jenkins
William Guthrie’s weird Christianity
The rector of St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery brought the church into relationship with the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1920s.
Kathryn Reklis
American Fiction and The Holdovers find beauty in quiet, personal drama
This used to be the form of most movies, but now it feels rare and precious.
Books
Seeking the Divine in the secular age
The modern mystics profiled in Bernard McGinn’s new book don’t experience ecstatic visions, supernatural miracles, or paranormal phenomena.
Edwards for all of us
George Marsden’s new book returns to the old project of making Jonathan Edwards modern.
Reading scripture through the experience of disability
Julia Watts Belser sees in the Torah a God who is in love with the creative possibilities of difference.