Hunting Where the Ducks Are: The Big-Picture of White Evangelical Populism in the US By Marcia Pally White evangelicals comprise a full 25 percent of American voters. Many have supported Vladimir Putin, both before the invasion of Ukraine and since. Read more
Contraction vs Distraction: Toward Earthier Coalitions By Catherine Keller “Distracted by distraction from distraction.” That line from T.S. Eliot’s poem “Burnt Norton” has been circling in my head. It comes as a mutter when I think of the circulation of Read more
A Spirituality of Work? By Dion Forster I need to begin with a confession of sin. In the late 1990’s I was serving as the minister of a vibrant faith community in Cape Town. Our church, like many others, had Read more
Stolen Focus as Spiritual Crisis: On Joining the “Attention Rebellion” By John Thatamanil Of the creation and enumeration of crises, there is no end. Any short list of major contemporary crises must include the ongoing COVID pandemic, the ecological crisis, Read more
Teaching Through Sirens By Anna Mercedes There seems to be a general sentiment of burn out at the liberal arts college where I teach in the American Midwest. When the Chronicle for Higher Education published an essay on the widespread Read more
Hospitality in an Era of Pandemics, War, and Climate Change By Whitney A. Bauman The western Christian Easter season has become increasingly hard for me over the years. This April marks the first anniversary of the death of one of Read more
Awakening to the Dreams of History By Laura J. Vollmer The COVID-19 pandemic has had a surprising effect: a renewed interest in dreams, as people are sleeping later and dreaming more. Dream sharing and interpretation is thriving, reflected in increased Read more
Body Knowledges and Practices (and the Coronavirus) By Lina Aschenbrenner Coming down with the coronavirus reminded me once again of how important it is to take seriously the role of bodies in processes of meaning-making. My creativity was as low Read more
A New Approach for Fighting Religious Violence By Sofia Parenti “If we’re going to successfully combat violent extremism, we’d better understand all of the factors because we can’t change minds without knowing what’s in them. And we have to do Read more
The Accidental Simplifier: On Smoking, Animals, and Happiness By Teya Brooks Pribac Truths are as good and beautiful as they promote the flourishing of multiple planetary bodies. – Whitney A. Bauman In his essay on voluntary simplicity, Richard B. Gregg Read more