There is no getting around it: the mission of God that is defined by the cross means that we must be politically engaged. The ...

In her 1993 hymn, “Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom,” the Ruth C. Duck personified wisdom as “she who clears the path to justice, showing us what love must do.” The same can be said of Duck, the ...

Ridley Scott’s movies are often splashy epics about near impossible feats undertaken by flawed but honorable and charismatic men. His subjects are both historical heroes (Napoleon, 2023; Robin Hood, ...

The 2024 Netflix drama Joy tells the story of Jean Purdy, a British nurse and embryologist, who in 1968 comes to interview with the physiologist Robert Edwards at his lab in Cambridge. Edwards wants ...

Like many of their neighbors, leaders of the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center watched in horror this week as wildfires destroyed homes, businesses and entire neighborhoods in Southern California, with ...

All theology is contextual. The oldest law book in Iceland, Grágás, which emerged sometime between the ninth and 13th centuries, preserves an instruction for emergency baptism when traveling with a ...

So why on earth are students signing up to endure the discomforts of the classroom, the precarity of their job markets, and ...

In the bluish congregation I belong to, we are mostly silent on partisan politics, trusting, I think, that the implicit power ...

Du Bois, were engaged in the project of racial uplift, the practice of affirming the collective status of Black people.

What can the church offer trans people right now? Baptism and Eucharist should rework all of our ideas about identity.

I iron the finger towels, the lavabos, the least holy of the altar cloths—still attentionmust be paid, edges wrinkle free, the linen folded in thirds so the small red cross is on the bottom of the top ...