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There was a fabulously DIY quality to Dolly Parton’s faith.
Colton Bernasol
The price of AI’s techno-religious promises
The environment is not the only sacrifice we’re being asked to make. Workers, too, are being offered up.
Liz Charlotte Grant
Protesting into the void
Dissent is becoming a criminal act in America. As Christians, how will we respond?
Jennifer Kaalund
Gospel women versus the theobros
The Gospel of Mark does not ask whether women are capable of faith. It asks whether anyone is prepared to hear and believe their testimony.
Mac Loftin
What US veterans taught me about The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan joins Simone Weil in a long tradition of reading the poem as a condemnation of war in all times and places.
Michael Woolf
The workingman of Nazareth
As AI unsettles the future of work, Jesus’ identity as a tekton deserves a second look.Latest from the Online Columnists
Colton Bernasol
The price of AI’s techno-religious promises
The environment is not the only sacrifice we’re being asked to make. Workers, too, are being offered up.
Michael Woolf
The workingman of Nazareth
As AI unsettles the future of work, Jesus’ identity as a tekton deserves a second look.
Mac Loftin
What US veterans taught me about The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan joins Simone Weil in a long tradition of reading the poem as a condemnation of war in all times and places.
Brandon Ambrosino
Dolly’s theology was love
There was a fabulously DIY quality to Dolly Parton’s faith.
Brandon Ambrosino
Jason Arday should be alive
A competition for clicks turned one man’s exaggerations into a referendum on his life.
Michael Woolf
Why do Christians support internment camps?
The answer seems to be about race, according to new polling.
Brandon Ambrosino
The common good in the age of AI
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical shows how Catholic social teaching was built to outlast any single issue, including the newest ones.
Liz Charlotte Grant
Protesting into the void
Dissent is becoming a criminal act in America. As Christians, how will we respond?
Mac Loftin
Daniel Berrigan and the religion of war
The radical Catholic peace activist believed war is a religion that only a rival liturgy can resist.
Michael Woolf
Humans are gonna human
From David’s Psalms to Good Omens, beauty and moral failure have traveled together.
Jennifer Kaalund
Gospel women versus the theobros
The Gospel of Mark does not ask whether women are capable of faith. It asks whether anyone is prepared to hear and believe their testimony.
Michael Woolf
Is the church in a status confessionis moment?
Rising totalitarianism is at odds with our faith, and we ought to be clear about that.
Mac Loftin
The war with Iran is the crowning stupidity of our stupid age
No work of art better unveils war’s essential stupidity than Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
Brandon Ambrosino
What does the death of Jesus have to do with me?
Whatever the historical reasons for the crucifixion, the Christian tradition has always insisted that one of the reasons Jesus died is me.
Michael Woolf
There is no holy war
The attempt to sacralize military action in Iran as ordained by God provides an opportunity for a different sort of Christian witness.
Michael Woolf
Arbitrary president, trustworthy God
Our leaders have made it impossible to trust them. God is different.
Brandon Ambrosino
Refusing the rituals of cancel culture
Christians are called to pursue accountability through restoration—not exclusion.
Mac Loftin
The massacre that never ends
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.