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 ...

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 ...

All theology is contextual. The oldest law book in Iceland, Grágás, which emerged sometime between the ninth and 13th centuries, preserves an instruction for emergency baptism when traveling with a ...

As clear as John is about his role, he still relies on the community for a more robust expression of his calling.

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 ...

Ridley Scott’s movies are often splashy epics about near impossible feats undertaken by flawed but honorable and charismatic men. His subjects are both historical heroes (Napoleon, 2023; Robin Hood, ...

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

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

Last April, when students at Emory University began their encampment to protest the war in Gaza and demand divestment, I showed up as a faith leader to support and witness students at Candler School ...