Trump administration

“We see hope in the small things,” says LWF World Service director Maria Immonen, “but also despair—because the solutions are right there, just out of our reach.”

Rising totalitarianism is at odds with our faith, and we ought to be clear about that.

No work of art better unveils war’s essential stupidity than Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

The attempt to sacralize military action in Iran as ordained by God provides an opportunity for a different sort of Christian witness.

Our leaders have made it impossible to trust them. God is different.

The brief biblical account of Herod’s slaughter of the innocents raises the question of what faith demands when politics fails to stop the killing.

Genesis 3 and Emmanuel Levinas can help us make sense of masked violence.

The scriptural concept of collective blessing challenges the pervasive logic that seems to be holding this country hostage.

Antifascist writers of the last century grappled with the same bewilderment we do—and they made sense of their politics theologically.

Rome’s political erasures were a precursor to today’s contested US history.

The US government is deploying Norman Rockwell’s paintings of idealized American life as propaganda. Those who are preserving his legacy are not happy.

The AI-generated meme is this administration’s house style—moral degradation made visible.

Sergeant First Class Kate Cole isn’t an activist. She isn’t a radical. She’s a trans woman, a rock climber, and my friend—and after 17 years of military service, Trump kicked her out.

Pronatalists fixate on tomorrow’s imaginary children. Baptism demands that we care for those already born.

Her contributions to this nation can hardly be overstated. The federal government’s attempt to erase them has theological implications.