After resurrection, Jesus acted strange, materializing through solid wood, even though he didn’t look that different. The gashes seeped still, varnishing the tentative hand, the fingers that needed to know him new. Let me say how strange I feel, trusting this to be true—that a body can be both mortally wounded and whole enough to […]
In response to the earthquake’s devastation in Haiti, the church must look to its constitutive story—the cross and resurrection of Jesus—in order to speak and act faithfully in solidarity with those who are suffering.
Jason Byassee examines fatherhood, mortality, resurrection, and the hope of a good surf.
In this theological response to the Haiti earthquake, Nathan Kerr suggests that rather than merely speaking about God, Christians should inhabit a mode of speaking to God that responds to the oppressed victims of Haiti by living in solidarity with them, both in revolt against the powers that oppress and in hope that God might liberate them to live and love freely.
In this art exhibit and interview, Tim Lowly invites us to challenging stories by painting his daughter Temma as an icon of sorts, pointing us outside our selves and our comfort zones, toward God and the other.
A review of Death’s & Transfigurations by Paul Mariani.
A poem by Christina Cook meditates on death and rebirth during wartime.
In this poem, Luci Shaw metaphorically considers the cycles of collapse and reformation that define the spiritual life.
Trends in World Christianity A fact of our time is the rise of Southern Christianity. Its emergence heralds the birth of a truly dynamic world Christianity, marked by the axial shift in mass and direction of the religion’s center from North America and Europe to Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, a phenomenon that […]