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Rockwell the activist
The US government is deploying Norman Rockwell’s paintings of idealized American life as propaganda. Those who are preserving his legacy are not happy.
Mandatory mourning
What the responses to Charlie Kirk’s death reveal about truth, power, and the Christian call to honest grief
Pentecostalism for the people
Progressive politics can flow naturally from a life of prayer. I learned this from my Latine Pentecostal family.
Breaking cycles of violence with How to Train Your Dragon
I went to see a family movie. I got a lesson in René Girard’s mimetic theory.
When theology kills
Ruth Miller’s beliefs led to multiple deaths. Is my own faith giving life or taking it?
Confession: I don’t want Trump to go to heaven
Hearing him admit that he might not be first in line at the pearly gates was surreal.
Rehearsing for the revolution
The No Kings protests made their politics real to everyone who watched—including the state.
How politicians use the Bible
Scholar Hannah Strømmen provides a helpful guide for navigating our scripture-saturated political discourse.
Katy Perry and the wealthy women of space
Greed has no end, and the end of greed is resistance to every limitation—including the limitation of gravity.
Why does the Southern Baptist Convention wield so much political influence?
The SBC is loud, but it represents a slim minority of Christians who are out of step with the rest of the country.
A theology—and an activism—that centers struggle
In the 80s, Edicio De La Torre and other Filipino thinkers helped clergy and laypeople to understand the long-term nature of fighting for change.
Erasing women
The Trump administration’s moves against women leaders are not new. We’ve been here before.
Does it matter if Jesus was crucified with nails or ropes?
A recent Christianity Today article—and subsequent apology—reminded me of the forbidden questions of my evangelical upbringing.
A road trip to Noah’s Ark
My in-laws took the whole family to a monument to young earth creationism. What could go wrong?
Why does J. D. Vance want more American babies?
Pronatalists fixate on tomorrow’s imaginary children. Baptism demands that we care for those already born.
The Trump administration hasn’t attacked religious schools and seminaries—yet
Liberation theologian Ignacio Ellacuría didn’t leave us a blueprint for resistance, but he speaks to times like ours.
False gods of war
In Trump’s Situation Room, as on the fields of Ilium, those who wage war seem unable to experience the violence they inflict as real violence.
Trump the savior-king
The president, just as the Christian Reconstructionists intended, sits at the top of a violent system as the mouthpiece of a silent, abusive God.