Reparations, Not Reconciliation – By John Senior
John Senior on Jennifer Harvey’s Dear White Christians Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, the wrenching and beautifully rendered epistolary
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Let No One Despise Your Youth – By AnneMarie Mingo
AnneMarie Mingo on Rufus Burrow Jr.’s A Child Shall Lead Them Recent social movements from DREAM Activists to the Arab Spring to Black
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The Good-Enough Death – By Marian Ronan
Marian Ronan on Ann Neumann’s The Good Death At first glance, a reader might take Ann Neumann’s The Good Death for a standard
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Thomas Merton and the Future of Faith – By Christopher Pramuk
Merton dares us to imagine what is possible for God and for human beings In August of 1938, a young graduate student at
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Meredith Warren on Transformational Eating in Ancient Literature
Divine food can give people access to privileged knowledge, supernatural realms, or transform them completely. Kristian Petersen talks with Meredith Warren, Lecturer
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MRBlog | What Jews Kvetch About When They Kvetch About Bernie Sanders
By Sandra Fox How the Democratic candidate for President is the newest pretext for an old debate over acceptable American Jewish identity In
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The Writer’s Shed: Peter Enns
Charles Halton talks with Peter Enns about his new book, The Sin of Certainty, the difficulties of studying the Bible, writing trade books,
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First Impressions #80: Hector Avalos on the Impeachable Ethics of Jesus
Jesus may not have been the moral exemplar he is so often considered to be. Joseph Ryan Kelly talks with Hector Avalos about
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What Has Practice to Do with Theology? – By Bradley Peper
Bradley Peper on J. Patout Burns Jr. and Robin M. Jensen’s Christianity in Roman Africa Traditionally, studies in early Christianity have emphasized one
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For the Record – By Joseph Winters
Joseph Winters on Lerone Martin’s Preaching on Wax In her seminal article, “Rethinking Vernacular Culture,” historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham encourages students of religion
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