Politics & Society
When Christians do unchristian things
It can be tempting to respond to people’s harmful actions by denying their identity as Christians. We should resist this temptation.
Spectator violence is a form of moral injury
Something critical has broken in the American psyche: Misanthropy has taken root.
The minds and money behind MAGA
Books by Laura Field and Jacob Silverman expose how right-wing intellectuals and tech billionaires have joined forces to dismantle the democratic order.
Not homeless enough to count
Brian Goldstone shows how America’s housing system renders five working families in Atlanta invisible even as they teeter on the brink of collapse.
Has worship become a luxury good?
As working-class stability erodes, congregations are quietly remaking themselves in the image of the middle class.
Deliverance for oppressed and oppressor
The early Black church understood that the church is not just a place for worship—it is a launching pad for liberation.
The Palestinian remnant in Bethlehem
“When your land is confiscated, you can’t do anything about it,” says mayor Maher Nicola Canawati. “People just leave. They lose hope.”
What’s the connection between evangelicalism and conspiracy theories?
According to Jared Stacy, it’s fundamentally about language and story—and it goes back to Colonial America.
Sermons without church
For someone who doesn’t call herself a Christian, I listen to a lot of sermons. They’re providing some much-needed sustenance these days.
When the demon takes over
Fascism is a cult of power. It works by intoxicating half the population and filling the other half with dread and despair.
One day in April
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed exactly a year after he delivered his “Beyond Vietnam” sermon. The tension between these two events is still with us.
The president’s brokenness
The war in Iran underscores what was already evident: Trump goes on instinct, and his instinct is to dominate others.
Death work
Sarah Jobe puts testimonies from her fellow prison chaplains in conversation with Karl Barth’s work on reconciliation. Does resurrection matter in the face of state-sanctioned suffering?
There is no holy war
The attempt to sacralize military action in Iran as ordained by God provides an opportunity for a different sort of Christian witness.
Easter in a brutal world
How can we proclaim any sort of hope right now? We aren’t the first Christians to wrestle with this question.
Believe your own eyes—and cultivate your moral perception
Kristi Noem lied to the public about Alex Pretti’s death, and everyone could see it. But not everyone cared.
All atonement theologies are contextual
God is known not in abstraction but among those we police, punish, and forget.