Crossmy hands, uncross them. Cross myself at the altar: bread and blood, body and wine.  Wind my way back, grief quiet as the ...

Rather, he takes Calvin in his context as a migrant, a refugee, a lawyer, and a political operator, mining his writing for ...

At graduation, we faculty members looked at one another across the aisle, wondering which of us would be, in the university ...

They shall sit under their own . . . trees         and no one shall make them afraid.                       (Micah 4:4)Spring ...

Nadia Bolz-Weber, a popular author and preacher, has left her role as pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, the Denver church she founded a decade ago as a 39-year-old divinity student.

How can a good God command—and engage in—unspeakable horrors? To take perhaps the most salient example from the Bible, readers both ancient and modern have been perplexed by the notion that God ...

In a recent address, Arvo Pärt told his audience: “I apologize, but I cannot help you with words. I am a composer and express myself with sounds.” If anything, his reticence is on the increase: after ...

It was just ten years ago that my evangelistic work came to the attention of the church as the result of a Los Angeles crusade. To me it was like a bolt of lightning out of a clear sky. I was ...

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Existentialism, which was all the rage in Europe and America in the late ’40s, ’50s, and early ’60s, has lost much discernible meaning. One rarely even hears the term these days. In our age of terror, ...

“I am too old to mince words,” Marilynne Robinson warns us in the preface to her fifth collection of essays. She wrote them between the spring of 2015 and the spring of 2017, mostly in response to ...

Zachary Wood is president of Uncomfortable Learning, a student group at Williams College in Massa­chusetts that brings in speakers with an eye toward broadening the range of political discourse on ...