December 16, 2021 / Theology
Tejai Beulah explores US Christianity from the perspective of a formerly enslaved grandmother.
Tejai Beulah
December 16, 2021 / Theology
December 16, 2021 / Theology
Reception or Consumption in the Age of Hybrid Church
Antebellum Protestants, Reality TV, and the Contemporary White Church
Underground Railroad
To Interpret Scripture Intelligently: The Bible, Civil Rights, and Human Dignity
The Night Mary Gave Birth: A Christmas Eve Liturgy
Theology
Claire K. McKeever-Burgett
December 15, 2021 / Theology
December 15, 2021 / Theology
Claire K. McKeever-Burgett reimagines the traditional Christmas Eve liturgy from Mary’s perspective.
Justin R. Phillips
September 2, 2021 / Theology
September 2, 2021 / Theology
Justin Phillips reviews Aaron Griffith’s God’s Law and Order and Brenda Salter McNeil’s Becoming Brave.
Creative Writing
Megan Hamilton
January 12, 2022 / Creative Writing
January 12, 2022 / Creative Writing
Megan Hamilton retells stories of her small town through some of its least-noticed structures.
Julie L. Moore
December 20, 2021 / Creative Writing
December 20, 2021 / Creative Writing
Julie L. Moore imagines what the underground railroad might say if it could speak.
Sonja Livingston
December 1, 2021 / Creative Writing
December 1, 2021 / Creative Writing
Sonja Livingston contemplates junior high, Blondie, and what it means to be saved.
Praxis
N. Ammon Smith
January 5, 2022 / Praxis
January 5, 2022 / Praxis
N. Ammon Smith asks how we avoid becoming consumers in an age of digital ecclesiologies.
Rose Schrott
December 29, 2021 / Praxis
December 29, 2021 / Praxis
Rose Schrott explores how The Bachelor and American antebellum conceptions of sin invite the white church to reimagine sin and rethink racism.
Caroline Stowell
December 8, 2021 / Praxis
December 8, 2021 / Praxis
Caroline Stowell learns the difference between loving and converting.
Art
Mary McCampbell
March 5, 2020 / Art
March 5, 2020 / Art
Mary McCampbell develops a more robust theology of creation care after visiting Douglas Coupland’s Vortex exhibit in the Vancouver Aquarium.
Deborah Lewer
January 6, 2020 / Art
January 6, 2020 / Art
Deborah Lewer considers the painting The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow (Epiphany).
Steven Félix-Jäger
September 12, 2019 / Art
September 12, 2019 / Art
Steven Félix-Jäger critically engages language theory in the conceptual art of Brent Everett Dickinson.
Perspective
Ken Badley
June 3, 2021 / Perspective
June 3, 2021 / Perspective
Ken Badley reviews The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl R. Trueman.
Zachary Thomas Settle
May 24, 2021 / Perspective
May 24, 2021 / Perspective
Zachary Thomas Settle brings Paul Griffith’s Christian Flesh into conversation with Natalie Carnes’ Motherhood.
Tom C. Hunley
May 5, 2021 / Perspective
May 5, 2021 / Perspective
Tom C. Hunley spends an evening pondering 28,065 nights by Katie Manning.