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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

We “discover” an obscure band only to run into people who’ve known about it for years. We read a book that appears to us as ...