A poem by Jesseca Cornelson.

In ‘The Great Emergence,’ Phyllis Tickle gives a concise overview of church history, describes a cycle of immense change, and pinpoints the present as a moment of great upheaval, opportunity, and change.

Two strange stories from the Old Testament illuminate our own tension over whether or how to quantify the human cost of military action.

This essay proposes a philosophy that is committed to truth and passionate for comprehensive wisdom, one that expresses suffering out of hope for God’s future.

As one of several performances within Sacred Offense: Studies in Art, Aesthetics and Spirituality, Concrete Cruciform explores the relationships between the sacred and offensive, the ascetic tradition of Christianity and contemporary performance-based art, and artistic and spiritual practice, as well as integrating concepts of internal and external deserts, death in life and life in death, the aesthetic experience of the sublime, and the interplay of kenosis (emptying) and pleroma (filling).

A former mountain climber defies death, this time, from her wheelchair.

In this essay the author explores the fraternal worldview exhibited in the work of Francis of Assisi as a contemporary source for Christian hope in the face of death.

n this interview, Sister Helen Prejean of ‘Dead Man Walking’ fame tells about her fight to overturn the death penalty and save innocent men and women on death row.

This interview explores the themes of the book “Subverting Global Myths,” by Vinoth Ramachandra, which investigates modern narratives of terrorism, human rights, science, and religious violence.