Editor’s Note: Our Assistant Theology Editor, Stephanie, and her husband, Steven, are currently living and working in Tanzania with local coffee bean farmers. What follows is the first of several updates they plan to publish about their work here at TOJ. You can learn more about their work by visiting aftertrade.org. * * * A few weeks ago we […]
The roaring seas of the apocalypse are displacing millions of global refugees.
She rode out to sea at the wheel of the rented boat, her hair wild in the wind.
The story of Rahab begins early in the Joshua narrative. As the Israelites prepare to cross the Jordan River, they launch their conquest on Canaan by sending spies west. Two spies stay with Rahab in Jericho and she protects them from capture by hiding them on her roof and deceiving the Jericho authorities. Rahab later […]
Marilynne Robinson’s novels have become almost synonymous with loneliness, but solitude here remains entangled with a less acknowledged trope—an enveloping and dazzling darkness.
Pain and trauma can lead us beyond the limits of our conceptual frameworks to new ways of connecting with God and others.
In the beginning, God gave birth, and it was really hard.
This essay draws on Judith Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure to discuss the relationship between queerness and children.
