It was the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, and David Peters thought he might be dying. It wasn’t COVID; it was his liver—but his illness was directly related to the conditions the pandemic had ...

It is the discipline of a community that has resolved not to rush human life past its own dignity. When such practices erode, ...

The brief Biblical account of Herod’s slaughter of innocents raises the question of what faith demands when politics fails to ...

I pointed congregations to the Phoenix Affirmations, a set of statements articulated at a 2006 mainline Protestant gathering and later published by pastor and biblical scholar Eric Elnes. I suggested ...

But a quick look through scripture shows that following the sacred story of God’s involvement in our world is not without a ...

Deep suffering makes theologians of us all. The questions people ask about God in Sunday school rarely compare with the questions we ask while we are in the hospital. This goes for those stuck in the ...

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Mike Huckabee, the Trump administration’s representative in Israel, was ...

Rebecca Bratten Weiss finds treasures in the ruins of Christian literary classics. But first, the idols need to ...

It is at this time, when patriotism is causing bloodshed, that this effort to invent a new form must be made.” Against Hitler’s obsession with greatness, Weil suggests a patriotism motivated by ...

This event came on the heels of another episode featuring a well-known figure caught using a slur. After Nicole Curtis, star of HGTV’s Rehab Addict, was heard on camera shouting the n-word, the ...

In her third book on trust, Teresa Morgan argues that it is what empowers us to turn away from wrongdoing and suffering and ...

Imagining that Spanish chapel whereThis altarpiece had stood five hundred years,Hearing a ringing sanctuary bellHurrying the family to their morning mass,I see them dip their fingertips in water,Cross ...