Spirit

David Kline reflects on the Pentecostal and poetic imagination of the Minneapolis uprisings.

Mary Lane Potter treks in Laos and discovers new meaning in the sacrament of Communion.

Christian theologies of suffering often move too quickly to redemption, but in this interview with Shelly Rambo, she advocates a theology that remains in the ambiguous middle space between life and death, bearing witness to how trauma lingers in human experience.

Certain strands of friendship can cross distances, but others—regretfully—are broken.

Sarah Coakley’s important book recommends prayer as a way to an incorporative model of the Trinity.

In “Manifestation,” the poet Tania Runyan encounters prayer as something that hooks her “like a dendrite branch,” its movements slow, deliberate, and intimate.

n Hans Urs von Balthasar’s THEO-LOGIC, Christian truth is also the world’s truth, and it is the Spirit-led task of the followers of Christ to improvise on the melody of the Logos in order to draw out the truth of the world.

This essay argues that although it is common in contemporary philosophy to claim that the ineluctability of death entails its internality, thinking of death as ineluctable and external is much more fruitful.