The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way toa hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian ...

Meggan Watterson finds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla a seven-step journey for personal growth.

One Battle After Another makes no argument for the “right” sort of revolutionary action. It’s more concerned with the ...

The Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an celebrate the courage of a woman and her daughter from an ethnically marginalized class: Moses’ mother and sister. In a story that has inspired people across millennia, ...

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Debbie Hines draws on her legal career in Baltimore to show what redemption looks like in practice.

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

Yet I’d rarely given thought to the grammar of our faith, to how bound up language is in our ability to have hope during what feel like hopeless times, until recently. That is, until I had a spiritual ...

I wasn’t sure about the MDiv,” says Teresa Kim Pecinovsky, a chaplain and pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota. “But in Ferguson, I ...

On March 17, 1966, farmworkers marched to Sacramento in a procession replete with Stations of the Cross. Jeannine Hill Fletcher seeks to foreground them and others whose land, labor, and lives were ...

I confess that I have two difficulties in writing about how my mind has changed. First, from early childhood I was taught that you should never speak about yourself. Indeed, if you did, people would ...

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 ...