The Christian tradition has not been a hotbed of democratic ferment. For most of its existence, Christianity has found itself the subject of pagan or
“An abba said, ‘The prophets wrote books, then came our fathers, who put them into practice. Those who came after them learnt them by heart.
“You want me to finish this book,” I said to my husband. It was early in March 2020—just one month before my manuscript deadline and
One of the prominent movements influencing American politics today is Christian nationalism. This is not a new phenomenon. Christian nationalism in one form or another
In a restaurant in North Dakota, I found myself sitting across from a pastor I had met just hours earlier when I presented at his
Diversity is an intrinsically complex concept. It is not redundant, nor a case of circular reasoning, to say that there multiple ways to think about
Recently I suggested that Christians have much both to learn from and to contribute to public debates about monuments and meaning. Here I propose a
It is sometimes heard in our society that religion and politics are topics one should avoid because these topics are controversial and lead to heated
Our language is built on the sediment and rubble of the dead meanings of words. Take the word influenza, which today means “a dangerous respiratory
I was deeply convicted about my provincial ways of reading scripture recently by a work of fiction—William Styron’s 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Confessions of