In the Hebrew Bible, God’s love is maternal.
Theology
Several church bodies have adopted prolabor statements. The actions of their affiliated schools often tell another story.
A theological exploration in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure book
Bethany Sollereder explores different approaches to understanding suffering—and enacts one.
Is it the baby or the bathwater?
My dad, Bill Hamilton, was a beloved divinity school professor. That all changed when God died and we got run out of town.
The legacy of 1960s radical theology
My task at funerals is to share the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
“God’s social location is nowhere near women or Black people. I had to start looking for an image of the Divine that can speak to that.”
How Christena Cleveland walked away from “whitemalegod”
The social psychologist went on a revolutionary pilgrimage in search of the sacred Black feminine.
Cowardly politicians sacrifice the helpless upon it.
The world through Niebuhr’s eyes
38 scholars weigh in on Reinhold Niebuhr’s life and times, his allies and adversaries, his theology and ethics
Climate change requires adaptive faith
Debra Rienstra urges Christians to create spaces of transition and new growth wherever we are.
When illness took over my life, I developed a new understanding of the Eucharist.
If we take the doctrine seriously, then we dare not draw the circle of salvation along religious lines. Or any lines at all.