Voices
Benjamin J. Dueholm
The dangers of institutional neglect
How often do we think about the Holy Roman Empire?
Alejandra Oliva
Sermons without church
For someone who doesn’t call herself a Christian, I listen to a lot of sermons. They’re providing some much-needed sustenance these days.
Brian Bantum
The genders within us
I am more and more convinced that trans people’s gender multiplicity will point us to our collective liberation.
Kelly Brown Douglas
One day in April
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed exactly a year after he delivered his “Beyond Vietnam” sermon. The tension between these two events is still with us.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
All atonement theologies are contextual
God is known not in abstraction but among those we police, punish, and forget.
Stephanie Saldaña
Hope arrives in the present tense
Living in the liturgical present makes salvation a story about us, not just the past.
Stephanie Perdew
Why I don’t like the label “progressive Christianity”
I’ve come to approach it with suspicion—for pastoral, political, and theological reasons.
Benjamin J. Dueholm
The types of people we are
Our personal passions feel unique, distinguished. Most of the time they aren’t.
Peter Choi
Remembering not to forget
At their best, theology and history are complementary tools that enact remembering as a sacred practice.
Stephanie Perdew
Giving silence a seat at the virtual table
It’s one aspect of Christian life that can translate well to digital space.
Rachel Mann
Jesus and the wilderness of trans identity
I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.
Kelly Brown Douglas
The sacred testimony of Black joy
It’s a fugitive act, a form of resistance that creates freedom inside captivity.
Brian Bantum
Unrealized potential
It is time for men to embrace our capacity to care for people without applause.
Phil Christman
A better prayer for prisons
I love the Book of Common Prayer. I have some problems with Prayer #37.
Stephanie Saldaña
A great library of witnesses
Watching from Bethlehem, feeling helpless as the death toll rose in Gaza, I applied to go far away and do research.
Julian DeShazier
Pastoring in a city under siege
As a Black man from the South Side of Chicago, I am used to showing up during a crisis.
Alejandra Oliva
Irrevocable harm and irrevocable good
A favorable immigration ruling in Chicago was overturned. The growth of our bond fund was not.
Rachel Mann
Imagining the Magi
To be God’s people is to be caught up in parable, in story and storytelling.
Peter Choi
A cloud of witnesses for the new year
When the world feels like too much, I look to those who bore even greater burdens in ages past.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
A preacher at play
I once asked a child to give a Sunday sermon—on the book of Job.