Church
The wonderful ordinariness of congregational life
Sometimes it’s boring. Sometimes it’s thrilling. Sometimes it makes me cry.
My spouse is also my pastor
During the pandemic, I’ve realized how much I rely on her as a proxy for my faith.
It’s time to reimagine the church parking lot
What if it functioned more like a bridge than a wall?
Obery Hendricks condemns the sins of right-wing evangelicalism
If his book were a trial, the verdict would be clear: guilty.
Iona was once the beating heart of Celtic Christianity
The only thing it lacked was a desert—so the monks imagined one.
The Didache’s ancient wisdom on baptism lands differently in a megadrought
Faith and water conservation in the desert
Why go to church camp?
Jacob Sorenson has written a wise, informative, and practical study of the benefits of Christian summer camps.
Lent beckons like an open door
For 40 days, we contend with our mortality so that we might know what it means to live.
Two tough questions at the coffee shop
Why are you still in the church? Why bother with Christianity at all?
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill is conspicuously silent on race
Mark Driscoll’s megachurch radicalized White men by weaponizing the White nuclear family.
What happens when Mormon women are called to ordained ministry?
Talking with five former LDS members who left to go to seminary
A new lectionary that centers women
“If the gospel isn’t good news to the women in the passage, is it still good news?”
Catholic acts of mercy during the AIDS crisis
Michael O’Loughlin paints a vivid portrait of the complex, compassionate, and sometimes daring ways individual Catholics responded.
Cultivating Christ-like compassion
We may feel compassion in our guts, but we learn it by practicing empathic solidarity.
How playwright Tetsuro Shigematsu has transformed my homiletics classes
His advice: be yourself, be underprepared, be weird.
A vibrant Christianity in South India
Despite the government’s desire to eliminate non-Hindu faiths, churches thrive in the nation’s diverse south.
Benedict options learned from actual Benedictines
Patrick Henry’s vision of monasticism is not a fleeing ark, but a marsh teeming with life.
A rural church, a small budget, and a giant community meal
Feeding bodies and souls at Everyone’s Table
Seattle’s Interfaith Community Sanctuary includes Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus
“People from every religious tradition want to be of service to God’s creation in a genuine way.”