Church
Giving and receiving care are what we’re made for
Arthur Kleinman’s memoir gets at the heart of what it means to be human.
The historical roots of interfaith dialogue
Tal Howard offers a carefully researched history, from the Mughal Empire to Nostra aetate and beyond.
The creative resistance of Native American Christian art
The Christian Thunderbird is once more taking flight.
The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again
So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them?
Climate change’s threat to Christianity
Faith is growing in the tropics. So are the temperatures and the tides.
What preachers have said in times of national crisis
Melissa Matthes well understands both the political and the religious power of mourning.
The human moments of pastoral care
There’s something uniquely precious about being physically present with people.
Brazil’s explosion of música gospel
As Protestants gain numbers, a sizable world of Christian music in many genres has emerged.
A truth-telling child of Southern Methodism
Journalist John Archibald turns the spotlight on himself, his preacher father, and White Christians’ failures.
Sister Agatha roller-skates away from the church
The heroine of Claire Luchette’s novel realizes she became a nun to avoid being herself.
Tammy Faye Bakker’s story and Mark Driscoll’s in conversation
Church celebrity is complicated.
Danté Stewart’s letter to America
Shoutin’ in the Fire is a testimony to Black liberation and love.
Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five new books about the lives and faith of Christians around the world
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five new books about the practice of ministry after our recent calamities
The holy simplicity of artist John August Swanson
His art is like the man who created it: joyful, loving, and gently curious.
When Mennonites were settlers
John Eicher’s history exposes European Mennonite complicity in Native dispossession.
Who is welcome at the communion table?
Maybe the grace experienced in the sacrament precedes belief.
How a Serbian Orthodox congregation in Kansas City offers hospitality beyond the liturgy
At Thelma’s Kitchen, every table is a holy table and every guest a living icon.
The roots of India’s united churches
How the Church of South India and Church of North India were formed—and how they fare today.