Reading the creation story in a dying world

The poetry of Genesis 1 invites us into a sort of palliative care for the earth.

by Debra Dean Murphy

Flannery O’Connor’s letters with Caroline Gordon and other friends

Two new collections add to the landmark volume The Habit of Being.

by Henry L. Carrigan Jr.

A president who thinks he can do whatever he wants

Trump’s position is not that the facts will vindicate him. It’s that they don’t matter.

Sri Lanka’s religious fault lines

The island is a microcosm of the world’s religions—and of their wars.

by Philip Jenkins

Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?

by Jonathan Tran

Living by the Word for Sunday, October 27

Jesus' characters aren't nuanced; they're all elbows and ankles.

by JoAnn A. Post

Children’s books for tough conversations

We asked writers to tell us about a book for young children that provides the occasion for its readers—adults and children—to talk about large or difficult issues.

The power of somos más in Puerto Rico

A new song of liberation is born.

How Augustine responded to the problem of evil without solving it

When we make sense of suffering, we lose our ability to protest against it.

by James K. A. Smith