Theology
How Christian theology and practice are being shaped by trauma studies
Talking about God in the face of wounds that won’t go away
The suffering Jesus in Shawn Copeland’s theology
African American spirituality and God’s act of solidarity
The unmodern Luther
Christine Helmer threatens to dash to pieces the pieties of modern Luther scholarship.
Take & read: Practical theology
New books that are shaping conversations about practical theology
Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?
How Augustine responded to the problem of evil without solving it
When we make sense of suffering, we lose our ability to protest against it.
Candida Moss asks what bodily resurrection means
How early Christians thought about bodies and how we do
The relational religion of Martin Buber
Behind the man’s life’s work is a broken-hearted child.
A prophetic ministry of relationship
Jesus in conversation with three women in the Gospels
Doing theology with the assumption that queer people belong
Linn Marie Tonstad summarizes a far more interesting conversation about sex and gender than the one I grew up with.
Jesus’ risen, mutilated body
In Luke’s postresurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic.
Seeing the crucified Christ in my wife’s C-section
I see love incarnate in suffering flesh, a body bearing a body in pain for love.
Howard Thurman’s contemplative nonviolence
The pastor and mentor to Martin Luther King formed a vision of resistance around prayer, not politics.
Rowan Williams sees creation through the human, divine Christ
The incarnation doesn’t require a miracle; it reveals one that’s already there.
Elaine Pagels’s lifelong search for the sacred
Pagels vividly recounts her spiritual experiences. But she won’t let herself be bound by any tradition.
Kathryn Tanner’s anti-work ethic
The theologian doesn’t want finance capitalism to determine what we’re worth.
The emergence of belief—and unbelief
Ethan Shagan chronicles the expansion of these concepts since the Middle Ages.