Credo

Reverence is a kind of awe, and awe is a kind of humility. In that way, reverence is the great corrective to a tendency of belief to warp, to contract, and to harden. By Marilynne Robinson

Rooted in Humanity, Extended to Heaven

Many of the best new ideas emerge from consideration of the questions others have posed long ago, living in diverse landscapes fraught with tension, disagreement, and uncertainty. By Tu Weiming

Living under the Fallen Sky

What talk of God, what theology, is possible if you love science, if you count on it, if you study in the world of basic medical research? By Laurie Zoloth

Ora

Jerusalem, 1971: An artist’s passions and compulsions show that the light is, indeed, near the darkness. By Henry Greenspan

Renovating a Jewish-Muslim Bridge

Muslims offer a letter of reconciliation to Jews. By Edward Kessler

Christianity’s New Guises in China

Christianity takes on new guises in China. By Sunny Lee

Women Only?

Shades of intention and effect in Harvard’s gym-hours controversy. By Andrea Useem

Required Reading

A Hollow Agnosticism

Bart D. Ehrman’s God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer. By Chris Hedges

Shelf Life

Climbing Jacob’s Ladder

Arthur O. Lovejoy’s The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. By Christopher Queen

Required Viewing

With Agassiz, Darwin, and God in a Collection’s Inner Sanctum

Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. By Peter Bebergal

Three Poems

Seawater, and Ours a Bed above It

Snakes

Flag

By Katie Ford

Wild Turkeys of the Northeast

By Andrew McCarron