She is the cohost of the Encountering Silence podcast, and the creator of the Contemplating Now and Queering Contemplation podcasts. Her films include In Pursuit of Silence and Day of a Stranger. Her ...

The women who would be war heroes For many Americans, the tears never stopped. While the 1973 Paris Peace Accords stilled the ...

Cobb envisioned theology as a force for transformation. He believed theology was not about abstract speculation or ...

Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be ...

Sarah Coakley’s characteristically layered and learned inquiry into Christology uses brokenness as the central thread to stitch together accounts of often disparate doctrinal inquiries: the cross, ...

When Mississippi seceded from the Union in 1861, its Declaration of the Immediate Causes proclaimed the absolute necessity of slavery, which produced the goods necessary to the world’s commerce and ...

After his 1980 defeat, Carter devoted himself to the causes of a progressive evangelicalism that has all but disappeared from ...

On January 20, Donald Trump will return to power, with a tighter hold on the federal government and on his party. What are those of us who oppose what he stands for going to do for the next four years ...

A Vietnamese monk who became an internet hit last year is going international. Thich Minh Tue, 44, is on a 1,650-mile barefoot pilgrimage across Thailand and Myanmar to Buddhist sites in India—if ...

John D. Roth is project director of MennoMedia’s Anabaptism at 500 project, which commemorates the first adult baptisms in Zurich in January 1525—the symbolic start of the Anabaptist movement. Before ...

Richard Hays, a renowned New Testament scholar and former dean of Duke Divinity School known for his influential books on Christian ethics and his change of mind about same-sex marriage, died January ...

Promises are lovely. When they’re made with honesty and kept with reliability, they form the substructure of healthy relationships, the backbone of a well-­functioning society. “Cross my heart and ...