Politics & Society
Sri Lanka’s religious fault lines
The island is a microcosm of the world’s religions—and of their wars.
Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?
The fundamentalists, the modernists, and the oil they both swam in
Darren Dochuk shows how oil and American Christianity have long shaped each other.
Reading the creation story in a dying world
The poetry of Genesis 1 invites us into a sort of palliative care for the earth.
“Self-interest seemed almost omnipotent”
Langdon Gilkey’s account of his imprisonment during WWII is a study in how humans act under pressure.
Back to Margaret Atwood’s Gilead
The Testaments returns to the world of The Handmaid’s Tale. Is this a good idea?
Greta Thunberg’s prophetic speech at the UN Climate Action Summit
The young activist’s words were designed to disturb us and make us see ourselves as we are.
Taking implicit racial bias seriously
Jennifer Eberhardt insists that personal prejudice is deeply embedded, politically potent, and ultimately beatable.
Visiting a tent city in Mexico created by Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocol
The children here are gaunt and listless. They are running out of time.
Can we survive the incalculable damage of climate change?
David Wallace-Wells charts a path for life in the wake of global warming.
Tasting salvation during a fellowship meal at a maximum security prison
None of us wants it to end, because we know we'll never see each other again.
The intersection between blackness and whiteness
Emily Bernard’s essays insist that no conversation is about race alone.
Reparations is a spiritual issue
No full reparation for slavery can ever be made. We should try anyway.
How much beef consumption can our planet sustain?
Burning the Amazon to produce more cattle
What racism is—and how to organize against it
People already engaged in conversations about racial justice may find Ibram Kendi's analysis surprising.
There’s no good reason to bring back the federal death penalty
The Trump administration and public opinion are moving in opposite directions.
W. A. Visser ’t Hooft’s confrontation with nationalist idolatry among Christians
The Dutch ecumenist believed the church can—and must—challenge hateful ideologies.