"We should love the gods who don’t love us, / I’m reading in a cone of intimate light / beamed on a yellowing page."

This symposium reconsiders 'Time' magazine's landmark cover on the "death of God," sixty years later.

We remember Time’s 1966 Holy Week issue less for the story itself than for the three words on the cover: “Is God Dead?”

In 1960s America, God was not dead or hidden. So why did Time's "Toward a Hidden God" touch a nerve?

"My time at Orbis Books was centered on the belief that theology could be a force, a source of life, and a resource in the struggle for a better world."

Why have some prominent Black writers embraced nineteenth-century ideas about interracial partnerships?

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s ‘Regime Change’ suggests the worst of Trump's second term may be yet to come.

The fundamentalist Christian tendency to claim full knowledge of God has not protected religion. Instead, it has contributed to its decline.

Religious belief has migrated away from public institutional life and toward the interior, the personal, the chosen.

Catholic converts may be seeking tradition in a time of chaos, but many fall far outside the conservative "rad trad" stereotype.

"As a professor, the ingression of artificial intelligence into academic writing troubles me. But nothing depresses me quite like the AI takeover of ephemera."

"She understood crisis and pain in all its guises / how a pain’s sequel does one better than the last"

Sometimes described as a “Black Moses,” boxer Joe Louis was a lodestar for his African American brothers and sisters.

The Editors read about Catholic pacifist Gordon Zahn, yuppies taking over the city, and "the objects we call bibles."

Pope Leo has focused on issues—immigration, economic justice, war and peace, and artificial intelligence—on which the American polity is hungry for moral guidance.

For Christians, the death of God in Jesus Christ is not a disaster, but an event of God’s saving and creative power.

'Time' magazine's issue on the death of God got reactions, but Black and Jewish theologians would have asked (and answered) different questions.

Self-described "amateur" composer Norah Duncan IV has been a creative emblem of Detroit's rich Black Catholic heritage.

Pete Hegseth won’t be around forever—but unless change comes soon, we’ll be paying for his mistakes for years to come.

A Eucharistic celebration in Puebla displays a community's devotion and the central role of lay leaders in Mexican Catholicism.

Reading great novels should be an encounter that makes you more human, not more productive.

America's nineteenth-century country editors are fun to read about, but they shouldn’t be regarded as a foundation for solving today’s crisis in local news coverage.

The aspiration to defeat Islamic extremism is not absurd—America's strategy to do so is.