‘A Pedagogy of Coming to See’
A Q&A with Francis X. Clooney, S.J., about his memoir Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story. By Wendy McDowell
Category: Christianity
Paradise and the White Sky
Finding home with the Buddhist monastic tertöns and the Irish green martyrs. By Jordan L. Borgman
The Glory of the Coming of the Lord
The last battle of Revelation informs and inspires the public sphere, whether or not the polarizing rhetoric explicitly refers to the Christian faith. By Austin Bogues
Reframing Forgiveness
A Q&A with Matthew Ichihashi Potts on his latest book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account. By Suzie Greco
Childfree for the Planet?
Can one be childfree for the planet and simultaneously be a good Catholic or a good Vaishnava? By Trish Tillman
Prison Theology
Austin Reed’s antebellum memoir The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict subverts notions of incarceration as spiritually regenerative. By Klaus C. Yoder
Words in the Blood
In Blood Theology: Seeing Red in Body- and God-Talk, Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. exposes the toxic allure of blood imagery in Christian art, literature, and practices. By Mark D. Jordan
Cannon, Williams, and Womanist Survival
Womanism founders Katie Cannon and Delores Williams created groundbreaking work that has led to a wide range of scholarship focused on the thriving of Black women. By Gary Dorrien
Contemplative Prayer in Christianity
A reading list from Stephanie Paulsell’s seminar.
Only Connect: Networked Christianity in the Digital Age
The digital revolution and globalization have accelerated and redirected profound religious, social, and cultural changes already underway since the 1960s. By David N. Hempton
Today, Tomorrow, and the Next Day
Reflecting on a Lenten lectionary reading from the Gospel of Luke. By Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Citizens of Two Realms
During her year as a monk, a millennial discovers reverential awe in the midst of chaos. By Eloise Skinner
Bedeviling Spirit Possession in Ancient Christian Texts
A Q&A with Giovanni B. Bazzana on his newest book, Having the Spirit of Christ: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Early Christ Groups. By Joseph Kimmel
Controversy at the Vatican
The ongoing dispute between two wings of the Vatican hierarchy is getting ever nastier. By Kevin Madigan
At Trump’s Right Hand
With Paula White’s elevation to a position of power in the White House, the prosperity gospel has achieved its highest level of national exposure. By Mark I. Pinsky
Guadalupe Love
The Virgin of Guadalupe spreads her garment of compassion for all people in travail. By Davíd Carrasco.
Making Spirituality Safe for Evangelicals
D. Bruce Hindmarsh’s The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True Religion in a Modern World. By Brett Malcolm Grainger
What Truth Do Martyrs Tell?
Christians sought to rewrite the system of ancient social relations through their own narratives of ritualized embodiment in torture and execution. By Karen L. King
The Study of Religion on the Other Side of Disgust
Disgust directs us toward the painful truth of religion in human life beyond the bourgeois pieties of “religion” as it is defined and policed in the modern era. By Robert A. Orsi
A Christian Pilgrim Along the Buddhist Way
S. Mark Heim’s Crucified Wisdom: Theological Reflection on Christ and the Bodhisattva. By Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
