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
Featured
‘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
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
Four Journalists on Covering Religion Effectively
From talks delivered at the “Religious Literacy and Journalism Symposium”
A Dangerous Business
The problem of religious literacy and journalism is urgent. By Debra L. Mason
The ‘Trump Effect’ and Evangelicals
The 2016 election might be white Christian America’s last gasp. By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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
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
Dialogue
‘Sick, and You Visited Me’
Visiting the sick helps to combat the loss of identity they experience in the hospital. By Donald W. Shriver
Practicing Entanglement
The work of justice cannot succeed without deep, authentic relationships. By Elizabeth Aeschlimann
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
Taking Back the Narrative
Our priorities must shift radically in proportion to the stark social need around us. By Nadeem Mazen
in review
Books
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
Books
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
Art
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
Books
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
Books
Lessons in Dignity and Divinity
We can glean much wisdom from The Life of Omar Ibn Said. By Melissa Wood Bartholomew
poetry
Division Of
By Andrea Cohen
Puglia
By Michael Coppola
Soot
By Kaveh Akbar
perspective
Bearing Witness
This moment in history makes a claim on us all. By Stephanie Paulsell
From the archive
April 1963
A ‘Christo-morphic’ View of Religion
An excerpt from “Religion and the Finality of Christianity.” By Richard Reinhold Niebuhr
