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Theology
Are we idol worshipers?
Stephen Fowl’s fresh approach to the study of idolatry
The Qur’an is not a description of God. It’s a call to conversion.
Learning to face the doctrine of discovery
I wish I’d had Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah’s book when I was in college.
Pope Francis’s vision of a wounded church converted by mercy
How can the church become less of a citadel and more of a field hospital?
One of the greatest mysteries of faith is that God loves us as is.
Theology as a love letter to God
When liturgy embraces difference
Rebecca Spurrier’s study of a “disabled church” and its lessons for all Christians
How should the church respond to the colonialism that runs through its blood?
Robert Heaney believes the first step is penance.
What if we treated all of creation—plants and stars, soil and rivers—as our kin?
Biblical scholar Mari Joerstad and indigenous activist Nick Estes challenge our human-centered worldview.
How did American racism get to this point?
Joel Goza explores America’s addiction to racism and racialized poverty.
This time of year, our inner landscapes can seem as bleak as the outer ones.
How people deal with pointless suffering
Scott Samuelson considers seven responses to the age-old mystery.
David Bentley Hart’s polemic against the alleged doctrine of eternal hell
Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.
Politics, parenting, and other secular things we put our faith in
We’re religious about lots of things, says David Zahl. Just not God.