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Planting Trees and The Giving Tree

Agnes Howard
August 10, 2022

We are the boy. We are the problem.

What Grows on Trees

Jacqueline Doyle
August 9, 2022

You might be surprised!

Bad Citizens in a Democracy

Nadya Williams
August 8, 2022

The Athenian experiment gives us hope

Remembering Ron Sider

John Fea
August 5, 2022

Every time my life intersected with Ron Sider I left a better person

A Story in Two Parts

Amanda McCrina
August 4, 2022

A history of Polish-Ukrainian violence—and sometime solidarity

The Joe Biden Good-Time Action Adventure Hour!

Adam Jortner
August 3, 2022

Politicians ignoring ordinary citizens? Write a play instead! 

The Baptismal Vows of Michael Corleone

Jay Green
August 2, 2022

The crisis of leadership in contemporary religion and politics is rooted not in hypocrisy but in nihilism

The House Next Door

Robert Erle Barham
August 1, 2022

It’s never just a building that goes up in smoke

These Truths? Which Truths?

Eric Miller
July 29, 2022

This time science and tech won’t save us

With Every Victory the Christian Right Becomes Less Christian

John Fea
July 28, 2022

When it comes to the witness of the church, the Christian Right brand of politics is unsustainable. The church needs other alternatives.

Stranger Things: Not So Strange at All

Christina Bieber Lake
July 27, 2022

What should we do when monsters loom? Tell stories about them, of course.

Analogies of Abortion

Christopher Shannon
July 26, 2022

The historical roots of “My body, my choice” invite a political reckoning

Seeing Bathsheba

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
July 25, 2022

There’s more art history than you realize in your old children’s Bibles

A Savior Will Arise from Gettysburg and His Name Shall Be Mastriano

John Fea
July 22, 2022

The Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate’s Christian nationalism on display

Executioner’s Lament

John H. Haas
July 21, 2022

Choosing life for the wild creatures we encounter—when possible 

Should the Supreme Court Protect Abortion Laws from Democracy?

Daniel K. Williams
July 20, 2022

We would like to think of ourselves as a unified nation. Our laws tell a different story.

Democratic Spirit: Ulysses S. Grant at 200

Andrew F. Lang
July 19, 2022

The foremost challenge of Grant’s day has not gone away. His response to it merits our attention.

Beauty Through the Bedroom Rug

Paul Luikart
July 18, 2022

Are our capacities for perception up for what reality demands?

Rethinking an Ethic of Life

Kody W. Cooper
July 15, 2022

The fundamentally dependent nature of human beings requires much more than the state can offer

Trump Is Going Down and He Is Taking Evangelicals with Him

John Fea
July 14, 2022

Many of the former president’s court evangelicals have gone strangely silent

REVIEW: Creativity Calls for More Than a Room of One’s Own

Agnes Howard
July 13, 2022

Julie Phillips imagines the possibility of creative work and family life combined

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Franklin Graham sounds more like a member of a Trump cult than a Christian leader

August 10, 2022 By John Fea

Columnist Tony Norman leaves the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

August 9, 2022 By John Fea

I didn’t know about the “men’s emporium”

August 9, 2022 By John Fea

David McCullough, RIP

August 9, 2022 By John Fea

Merrick Garland and the FBI just woke up the court evangelicals

August 9, 2022 By John Fea

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