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My gender is a circle
So I took a new name—as many characters in the Bible do.
The duly elected Black men expelled from a state legislature—155 years ago
The expulsion of Justin Jones and Justin Pearson recalls the Original 33, expelled by Georgia’s anti-Reconstruction White majority in 1868.
The White church still owes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” an answer
King’s letter is so soaked in US history that 60 years later we almost forget it was addressed not to the nation but to specific Christian pastors.
A famous Passion play’s evolution
In Oberammergau, the keepers of a centuries-old tradition have made
big changes—including efforts to expunge antisemitic material.
Staying awake for Easter
What ritual remedies exist to sharpen our spiritual attention, focus, and clarity?
Restorative justice with Anselm
The satisfaction theory of atonement offers my incarcerated students something the substitution theory does not: a way to make amends and be restored.
The problem with artificial intelligence is us
As long as AI is trained on human behavior, it will tend to replicate our worst flaws.
Five ways your church might already welcome autistic adults
And some ideas for expanding that welcome
The language of rights and its limits
My niece Butterfly has me thinking about bodies, love, and responsibility.
Staying in a culture of leaving
My parents arrived in the US with three suitcases and two toddlers. I’ve experienced wanderlust ever since.
Learning from the Passover Seder without co-opting it
What wisdom can Christians find in Jesus’ meal-gathering around a religious holiday of his people?
Stronger than all evil things
She fled her homeland as a child. Years later, she forgave God.
Faith comes by hand
Throughout scripture, human bodies are not an obstacle to righteousness; they are its location.
Tyre Nichols’s killing is not an exception
Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.
A mosaic of story
What if we did asystematic theology?
Ecclesiastes as a one-man show
In Meaningless, Rodney Brazil brings Qoheleth to life.
Did Jesus tell us to pray for our enemies?
If so, what did he mean?
Pope Benedict’s complicated legacy
Both his strengths and his failings are distinctly Catholic.
Monday night meal plan
My church offered college students weekly fellowship.
It turns out they needed the food, too.
The prophetic church in Ortega’s Nicaragua
One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.