Sin and grace in public discourse

“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”

David Heim interviews Serene Jones

Promise: Essays by readers

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

Toni Morrison writes about race, religion, and her own fiction

Our language isn’t neutral. It has history embedded within it.

by Amy Frykholm

The Orthodox in Ukraine and their rival churches

The creation of a new body echoes old hostilities.

by Philip Jenkins

Time waits for no one

I went to see the Rolling Stones play again—and revisited an adolescent fantasy.

by Benjamin J. Dueholm

Living by the Word for Sunday, July 27

What if, when praying for our daily bread, we had real food in mind?

by Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

True generosity comes from joy

Bone-deep generosity has nothing to do with means and everything to do with desire.

by Peter W. Marty

These UMC deacons are more like doulas than circuit riders

How Sacred Stones Ministries is bringing new ministry models to birth

by Eric Smith

A woman’s place—at the mosque

How American Muslim women are transcending barriers to leadership.

by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil