What drove me out of Shiloh Fellowship was not exorcism but the emphasis on subjective emotion to the exclusion of almost everything else, including Christian doctrine.
On this episode, Aaron Robertson traces the untold story of Black Christian Nationalism while grappling with a question: what does Utopia look like in black?
On this episode, journalist Eliza Griswold shows how a crisis in a local church in Philadelphia holds implications for progressive organizations nationwide.
We don’t know for certain what kind of branches were used to welcome Jesus in Jerusalem. What matters most is that Jesus came home, and his return was a victory.
"This Laetare Sunday, then, I do want to focus on God’s love and my sins in light of God’s love, but not to the point of apathy, and instead to the point of further struggle."
On this episode, Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama testifies to the peace and spiritual freedom he found by laying down “the burden of belief.”
“Denial of the self is a traditional Christian spiritual practice that has its benefits, but this Lent I feel moved to a radical acceptance of the self.”
On this episode, the poet reads several poems from his new book, and then joins senior editor Matthew Boudway for a conversation about overcoming despair.
Philosopher Emmanuel Falque asks what Christians might now say that could actually matter to their post-Christian contemporaries in the academy or the arts.
One central problem for Christians now is how to reconcile two of the beatitudes in our lives as citizens—how to be peacemakers while also thirsting for justice.
The work of Louis Bouyer—one of the twentieth century’s greatest theologians—illuminates the full Christological richness of the Second Vatican Council.
The testimonies of witnesses to impossible events vivify the past. They allow us a glimpse of the world as some of those who lived long ago actually saw it.
We are locked up in our own little worlds, trying not to get hurt too much or screw things up, and we have our backs to the fireworks going on all around us.
“In a high-tech, evidence-driven world of contemporary medicine, it was a dream that led a physician to conclude that my wife was dying. How was that possible?”
Thieves, bandits, terrorists, freedom fighters, or revolutionaries: who were the ‘thieves’ crucified with Jesus? It depends on who’s labeled, and doing the labeling.
A faithful response to God’s call to evangelize is to sharpen our faces and our communities like flint—not as weapons, but as tools of creation and sustainability.
During Lent, we work to move with more determination toward our place of ultimate belonging. We have heard stories of that kingdom that cannot be un-heard.
