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An old man dreaming dreams of psalms
Paul Simon isn’t religious, but the voice he heard in his sleep seems to be.
Strange sounds in deep water
In 1958, Frank Watlington was listening for Soviet submarines when he stumbled onto an alien world.
The faith leaders who helped preserve abortion access in Kansas
In the fight over an antiabortion amendment, Protestant pastors and Catholic sisters worked to show that there is more than one faith-based view.
Discerning the body
Bodies get sick. What becomes of a church body when we enact unity at the table while ignoring our brokenness?
Preservation of church and planet
“The least green thing,” says Bob Jaeger of Partners for Sacred Places, “is to tear down and replace the building.”
Getting ultrareal about the church
Ultrarealism, a concept I learned from distance running, begins by seeing things as they really are.
Ordinary violence
Peacemaking is a crucial part of the Christian life—but it isn’t just about war.
The corrosive power of regret
What does it take to find self-compassion and embrace self-forgiveness?
Walter Earl Fluker’s call to the Black church
In King’s time, the goal was to stir the churches to struggle. Now it’s to wake the dead.
Blessings and curses
I wasn’t expecting to fall in love with Deuteronomy 28, but I did.
God’s underwater language
As a marine biologist, I ask how—and dance at the edge of asking why.
Burnout and resilience in the wilderness
Many rural pastors like me are finding Jesus in the desert places.
Rival Orthodoxies in Ukraine
The war is revealing divisions among Christians in the region—and deepening them.
Tom Stoppard gets personal
Leopoldstadt grapples with the 86-year-old playwright’s Jewish roots and his fear about the direction of our society.
Hungary’s progressive Christian resistance
Viktor Orbán has tried to buy the loyalty of the churches, but not everyone is selling.
Deconstructed, reimagined faith
Five ways I see a new generation reorienting its Christianity
Mercy Amba Oduyoye and her Circle
The Ghanaian theologian has long insisted that the experiences of African women are the experiences of the church.
Julian the theologian
We ignored her for hundreds of years. Then we reduced her to a slogan.
The woman behind tarot’s strange beauty
I wonder how Pamela Colman Smith worked it out in reverse, led by her own creativity straight to the Catholic Church—the place I’ve tried to leave.
The power of the Latin neuter
An ancient language offers my nonbinary students something English does not.