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
Featured
The Karma of a Nation
An eastward journey of Japanese American Buddhism helps us to reimagine the story of American identity and confront legacies of anti-Asian violence. By Duncan Ryūken Williams
Simple Living & High Thinking
A professor of religion and ethics discovers the spirituality of spinning cotton khadi while living among the sisters of the Brahma Vidya Mandir ashram. By Swasti Bhattacharyya
Dialogue
Weather Reports: The Climate of Sacred Land Protection
Terry Tempest Williams reflects upon the multifaceted effects of the climate crisis in a series of conversations. Threats to the sacred land and caribou herds of the Arctic Refuge. With Bernadette Demientieff and Eric Descheenie
Weather Reports: A Burning Testament to Climate Collapse
Wildfires burn in the American Southwest. Terry Tempest Williams with Lucy Walker
Weather Reports: The Climate of Grief
How might grieving, as a form of love and remembering, shape our responses to a changing planet? Terry Tempest Williams with Victoria Chang
Weather Reports: The Climate of the Future
Imagining a path forward in a post-capitalist world. Terry Tempest Williams with Kim Stanley Robinson
In Review
Shelf Life
Dune, or the Order of Time
Convergences of messianism, religion, and politics in Frank Herbert’s Dune and Dune Messiah resonate with his time and our own. By Charles M. Stang
Books
Ways of Knowing, Ethics of Care in Piranesi’s Labyrinth
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi evokes an ethics of care within a mythical landscape haunted by continuous loss. By Courtney Sender
Books
Centering Black Evangelicals and Their Stories
A Q&A with Todne Thomas on her latest book, Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality. By Adam McNeil
In Scripture
Today, Tomorrow, and the Next Day
Reflecting on a Lenten lectionary reading from the Gospel of Luke. By Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Syllabus
Contemplative Prayer in Christianity
A reading list from Stephanie Paulsell’s seminar.
Poetry
Three Poems
It’s Raining
The Noon Bells
The Sick and the Sea
By Corrado Govoni, translated by Paula Bohince
Two Poems
Patriarch
“Wha’ Izzat?”
By Walter Smelt
Perspective
Connection
Our shared digital experience opens up new opportunities to connect. And all that we have lost in the pandemic years perhaps, just perhaps, gives us a deepened appreciation for our fragile, beautiful world. By Gordon Hardy
