Features
Portraits of silence
The bad king
This political moment demands theology
Born a feminist
When Caesar gets demanding
Sarah Mullally breaks the Anglican Communion’s glass ceiling
Voices
Rachel Mann
Imagining the Magi
To be God’s people is to be caught up in parable, in story and storytelling.
Peter Choi
A cloud of witnesses for the new year
When the world feels like too much, I look to those who bore even greater burdens in ages past.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
A preacher at play
I once asked a child to give a Sunday sermon—on the book of Job.
Stephanie Perdew
One of us
In my circles, the incarnation is often met with a dismissive liberal skepticism. For me, it has always been a consolation.
Phil Christman
The poverty of gossip
It’s not just that it’s sadistic. It also lacks aesthetic or psychological imagination.
Benjamin J. Dueholm
Are we on the cusp of a revival?
Rumors of it are premature but persistent.
Books
Bearing witness in three lines
Frustrated with the limits of journalism, former war correspondent Rick Black turned to haiku.
A book that tells a story beyond its pages
Jason Mott’s wildly inventive novel depicts two Black American writers, an ocean apart. It’s up to the reader to decide how they’re related.
You can’t go home again
But you can remember it. Margot Singer’s essays explore how.
From comedy club to convent
How an insecure stand-up comic became a moderately famous Episcopal nun
A lethal article of faith
Veteran journalist William Kole sets out to understand White evangelical devotion to the Second Amendment.
The monsters we make
Historian Surekha Davies exposes humanity’s long-standing practice of turning difference into monstrosity.
The power of charismatic narrative
Why has the authority of American elites been swept aside? Historian Molly Worthen argues that it’s because they failed as storytellers.
Ministry and other callings
Kristen Bentley’s research indicates that there is no single right way to be a bivocational pastor.
Departments
Playing to lose
Imagining the grace to come
Standing up to state violence, professional-managerial clergy, and more reader feedback
New York’s Muslim mayor
