In 1973, scholar and Jesuit priest Michel de Certeau wrote that he was “feeling the Christian ground on which I thought I was walking disappear, seeing the messengers of an ending, long time under way ...

It’s hard not to feel complicit when we contemplate our next grocery run. The convenient items and ingredients for our favorite dishes are paid for with an unfathomable price. The produce section’s ...

Marjorie Maddox’s impressive new poetry collection suggests by its title that the reader is embarking on a journey. Maddox, who has produced 13 books of luminous poetry and teaches at Lock Haven ...

I recently attended a dynamic workshop for administrators in higher education, facili­tated by a psychologist. I confess that I went reluctantly, exhausted by a full academic year during a global ...

I could hear the piano playing and people singing—especially the majority-male voices that were louder and carried farther than the female ones. As a newly employed assistant professor of religion, I ...

When I began working as the chaplain at Lyon College, an Arkansas school affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), I was looking for ways that the local PCUSA congregation could support our ...

“To be young, gifted, and Black, right?” Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) says to Shuri (Letitia Wright), joking about the burdens of being a young Black woman and the brightest student in her MIT ...

Love Sechrest has gifted us with a unique book. She introduces a distinctive proposal for biblical interpretation, associative hermeneutics, a model she develops through critical race theory and ...

In Donovan Schaefer’s earlier book, Religious Affects, the religion theorist considered the role of emotion in shaping self-understanding and belief. Because that book focused on religion, he worried ...

We are at a moment of cultural and spiritual deconstruction. That word is often associated with evangelicalism, as exvangelicals move away from conservative religious positions and begin to take apart ...

On the first day of the Republican National Convention, former President Donald Trump announced Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will be his running mate as he seeks reelection.... Our so-called Christian ...

When Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two young Black members of the Tennessee General Assembly, stood before their colleagues after a shooter took the lives of three students and three staff members ...