The faith we place in markets and the sacrifices we offer on the altar of capitalism make all modern consumers part of an idolatrous system.

Despite the affinity many feel for Pope Francis, real change and growth in the church must come from the local level.

In an old-growth forest, everything is connected. No individual plant or animal, and indeed no species, is an island. As Pope Francis warns, we should pay attention.

The late German theologian Johann Baptist Metz believed theology was a culture of questions, not answers. Key to his theology was the unsettling figure of Christ.

Every crusade was both more and less than a religious war. No one had a monopoly on brutality, and economic motivations mattered as much as religious ones.

How did mainstream American Christianity became intellectually respectable and modern? The critical study of post-biblical Christianity played a key role.