politics
Why did ISIS film its destruction of ancient Assyrian artifacts in the Mosul Museum?
Aaron Tugendhaft says all acts of image-breaking are also acts of image-making.
Can the religious left be as effective in Washington as it’s been on the streets?
Jack Jenkins’s book is informative and persuasive, if not exactly unbiased.
Michael Cohen’s tell-all about Trump is mostly about himself
The moral lessons of his humiliation and imprisonment seem fairly limited.
How can we make our political polarization less destructive?
Ezra Klein suggests structural changes. Darrell West suggests talking to each other.
Is there a way beyond hyperpartisanship?
“We have remade our nation before and we can do it again.”
In a politically divided church, what’s the preacher to do?
The answer, says Leah Schade, is about dialogue as much as any single sermon.
What makes local communities thrive?
James and Deborah Fallows traveled around the U.S. to find out.
An economist’s call for a politics of global solidarity
Daniel Cohen asks: When our culture of growth collapses, what will society look like?
James Comey didn’t write a tell-all. He wrote a handbook.
What does ethical leadership look like?
The many perspectives of American evangelicalism
A new book of essays shows that evangelicals aren't all the same culturally or politically. So what's holding them together?
The earnest, hilarious Al Franken
The senator's jokes are still funny, even if Trump has made his satire obsolete.
Saul, David, and the morality of power
How shrewdly the drama of mixed motives, mixed loyalties, and mixed feelings unfolds.
A cure for liberalism?
John Milbank & Adrian Pabst consider Western society’s many problems and offer a prescription: virtue.
Are open borders the most ethical approach to immigration?
David Miller’s book doesn’t offer policy solutions. It does help us think clearly.
A new series on faith in election season
At his inauguration on January 20, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower took an unprecedented step: after taking the oath of office, he led the nation in prayer. During his prayer, which historian Kevin Kruse notes helped make Eisenhower’s inauguration as much a “religious consecration” as a “political ceremony,” the new president asked God to “make full and complete [the executive branch’s] dedication to the service of the people.”
Eisenhower’s professed dedication to serve all the citizens of the United States and his willingness to rely upon God’s help were not entirely new.
No, the Democratic Party is (still) not the party of God (guest post)
In an effort to triumph over the religious right, many progressive Christians have married their faith and politics to the Democratic Party, leaving little to no gap between their political visions and the party’s policies. Instead of celebrating this as a successful strategy for re-ascendency, I see it compromising radical Christian commitments to peace and justice.
How old is racism?
Many will look at the tribal and ethnic tensions that exist all around the world as a problem as old as human civilization. Isn’t this a strong argument for the reality that the racism that was practiced by white/western Europe is indeed just a reflection of what has always been?
Carnal theology
Flesh is indeterminate. It flows, changes over time, and is consumed and transformed. It becomes the reality of rich spiritual encounter.