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Staying in a culture of leaving
My parents arrived in the US with three suitcases and two toddlers. I’ve experienced wanderlust ever since.
Learning from the Passover Seder without co-opting it
What wisdom can Christians find in Jesus’ meal-gathering around a religious holiday of his people?
Stronger than all evil things
She fled her homeland as a child. Years later, she forgave God.
Faith comes by hand
Throughout scripture, human bodies are not an obstacle to righteousness; they are its location.
Tyre Nichols’s killing is not an exception
Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.
A mosaic of story
What if we did asystematic theology?
Ecclesiastes as a one-man show
In Meaningless, Rodney Brazil brings Qoheleth to life.
Did Jesus tell us to pray for our enemies?
If so, what did he mean?
Pope Benedict’s complicated legacy
Both his strengths and his failings are distinctly Catholic.
Monday night meal plan
My church offered college students weekly fellowship.
It turns out they needed the food, too.
The prophetic church in Ortega’s Nicaragua
One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.
Why am I so drawn to these evangelical couple vloggers?
They’re selling marriage as a promise and a return on investment. It’s both misguided and genuinely appealing.
Delores Williams’s voice in the wilderness
At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.
Listen to the survivors
Some churches are starting the long process of reckoning with their role in the horrors of Indigenous boarding schools.
My father’s last decision
On Christmas morning, he told us: he was considering suicide.
I hear no voice
Prayers for Children and the apophatic tradition
Surviving Hillcrest
Letta Cartlidge created a group for missionary kids who’d attended her boarding school in Jos, Nigeria. The stories of abuse poured in.
My fertility journey with Mary
Navigating agency and surrender with my namesake, the mother of God
Reading The Waste Land as it turns 100
T. S. Eliot’s epic poem is a masterpiece—but what do we do with its view of classical Western tradition?
Who owns the heavens?
With the space race outsourced to astropreneurs, the final frontier is for sale to the wealthy few.