I’m sure there are good uses for AI in our churches. Prayer and preaching aren’t ...

Father William Hart McNichols (he/him) is widely known as one of the world’s most gifted iconographers. A former Jesuit and student of Franciscan iconographer Robert Lentz, Fr. Bill’s icons have been ...

Faith formation isn’t dead. It’s happening outside the classroom.

The second season of Shiny Happy People reminds me of my year as a Teen Mania intern—and our efforts to become the standard ...

I was taught to stay on guard against the left’s postmodernism. Now it’s the right that seems unwilling to look truth ...

Wilkinson’s book—completed shortly before his death in 2023—is a response to a 2013 request from Billy Frank Jr. (Nisqually), ...

There’s a time to be silent and a time to speak. I want to say something to my Jewish friends and family, in grief and ...

What does it mean to be an inclusive church? Being a community means welcoming those with diverse views, not cocooning oneself with like-minded people.

Remembering WalterJason Edwards’s eulogy of Walter Brueggemann was eloquent and profound—almost good enough for Walter (“Walter Brueggemann’s gift of disruption,” August).—Terree NewberryGray, ...

It would be easy to glance at “Surviving Hillcrest,” the feature article we recently published about Hillcrest School in Jos, Nigeria, and see what you’ve seen before: people in positions of ...

Religion that harms Drawing on both research and personal experience, therapist Laura Anderson explores the trauma caused by high-control religion.

Music to Lure Pigeons By is ten tracks of swingy, up-tempo Chicago jazz, as performed by Robert Owen, the Night Pastor himself. This is not just a cool name for a bandleader but an actual job title, ...