A ‘Christo-morphic’ View of Religion
An excerpt from ‘Religion and the Finality of Christianity.” By Richard Reinhold Niebuhr
Category: Spring/Summer 2017
A Movement with a Theology
How black churches relate to the Black Lives Matter movement is a complex and ever-evolving story. By Adelle M. Banks
Old Souls, New World
Given their influential emphases on self-scrutiny, civil order, literacy, and the exalted mind, we need to give the Puritans their due. By Marilynne Robinson
Taking Back the Narrative
Our priorities must shift radically in proportion to the stark social need around us. By Nadeem Mazen
The ‘Trump Effect’ and Evangelicals
The 2016 election might be white Christian America’s last gasp. By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Telling Uncovered Sides of the Story
Black economic cooperation in the U.S. is the kind of narrative journalists need to cover more. By Nathan Schneider
A Dangerous Business
The problem of religious literacy and journalism is urgent. By Debra L. Mason
Soot
Poetry by Kaveh Akbar
Puglia
Poetry by Michael Coppola
Division Of
Poetry by Andrea Cohen
No Rescue
A crash that causes the death of a bicyclist haunts the driver for years and leads her to study Buddhism. By Shane Snowdon
A Heartwarming and Heartbreaking Exhibit
Syria: A Living History, a recent exhibit at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, focuses on the human context of art and artifacts. By Robert Israel
Lessons in Dignity and Divinity
We can glean much wisdom from The Life of Omar Ibn Said. By Melissa Bartholomew
‘Peace, Peace to Him Who is Far Off, and to Him Who is Near’
Conversations with a World War II conscientious objector and a soldier who served in Iraq deepen the author’s understanding of pacifism. By Sarah Sentilles
Fei Xiaotong’s Humanism Infuses “From the Soil”
An appreciation of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society. A Translation of Fei Xiaotong’s Xiangtu Zhongguo. By Anna Sun
Articulating a Different Future
A Q&A with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza on her newest book, Congress of Wo/men: Religion, Gender, and Kyriarchal Power. By Caroline Matas
Beyond Resistance and Complicity
It is important to call out anti-Muslim racism while also seeking to normalize Muslim cultural life in the United States. By Mariam Durrani
Changing Hearts, Opening Minds
A grassroots movement is needed to build bridges and strengthen ties between the Muslim community and the greater public. By Haley Rodgers
Practicing Entanglement
The work of justice cannot succeed without deep, authentic relationships. By Elizabeth Aeschlimann
Righteousness as Commitment
In Here I Am, Jonathan Safran Foer takes a hard look at marriage and what it means to be religious. By Randy Rosenthal
