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The mass shooting in Buffalo was an attack on the image of God
And it was enabled by social structures of permission.
The most important American Old Testament scholar of the last century is Norman Gottwald
In the life of early Israel, Gottwald found a God of economic justice.
Under Elon Musk’s authority
Doing church on social media is not like standing in the public square. It’s more like putting ourselves under a form of sovereignty.
Discovering our voices together after my wife’s stroke
With her own voice changed by the stroke, she wanted to hear the Bible spoken aloud by her husband.
Ambition used to be a vice
Now we tend to see it as a virtue—at least for some people.
The book of Job is a parody
Sometimes I picture its author looking down at us and shaking his head.
How should Asian American Christians respond to anti-Asian racism?
Be like water: clear, humble, persistent, and restorative.
QAnon moms
The infiltration of online parenting spaces began as a slow burn. During the pandemic, it’s picked up speed.
The mystical significance of Jesus’ resurrection
We don’t need to debate the possibility of a reanimated corpse. We need to reimagine our whole understanding of the material world.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the monster of Whiteness
Unmasking and slaying our Promethean desire for mastery
Myanmar’s civil war has continued unabated for 60 years
How could a Buddhist country have one of the worst human rights records in the world?
Amara Ifeji works at the intersection of climate and racial justice
The Nigerian-born activist grew up in Maine playing with the dirt—and experiencing environmental racism.
It’s time to reimagine the church parking lot
What if it functioned more like a bridge than a wall?
Is Russia’s war on Ukraine about religion?
The history of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodoxy suggests the answer is complicated.
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill is conspicuously silent on race
Mark Driscoll’s megachurch radicalized White men by weaponizing the White nuclear family.
What happens when Mormon women are called to ordained ministry?
Talking with five former LDS members who left to go to seminary
Evolutionary science meets evangelical faith
How teachers are helping students accept science without losing their religion
The Chair and the collapse of the humanities
Who, exactly, should preside over meaning-making?
The value of jokes in Jewish-Christian dialogue
Have you heard the one about the priest, the minister, and the rabbi?
We need a word for mothers whose children have died
Karla F. C. Holloway offers one from Sanskrit: vilomah.