How I learned to love the doctrine of total depravity

When unremitting human sin is something I expect, I can face evil without despair.

by Heidi Haverkamp

Greta Thunberg’s prophetic speech at the UN Climate Action Summit

The young activist’s words were designed to disturb us and make us see ourselves as we are.

When the chapel is the most open place on campus

Virginia Woolf’s ideal university had no chapel. Mine has more than one.

by Stephanie Paulsell

Taking implicit racial bias seriously

Jennifer Eberhardt insists that personal prejudice is deeply embedded, politically potent, and ultimately beatable.

by Andrew Packman

Dirt: Essays by readers

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “dirt.”

Living by the Word for Sunday, October 13

Maybe the lepers know that Jesus likes being in the borderland.

by Dennis Sanders

(De)formed by wealth in Succession and Schitt’s Creek

Is there any redemption for the Roy family or the Rose family?

by Kathryn Reklis

Visiting a tent city in Mexico created by Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocol

The children here are gaunt and listless. They are running out of time.

The holiness of Toni Morrison’s fictional worlds

Faith, in Morrison’s novels, is about improvising a way toward freedom.

by Amy Frykholm