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Unite and Conquer: What the White Christ Costs White Workers
We Are the Miracle: Schleiermacher and Soft Empire
Biblical Womanhood Came from a New Thought Press: Kristin Du Mez on Live Laugh Love
Empire Hard, Empire Soft: Joerg Rieger on Las Casas and the Conquest That Learned to Be Nice
Every Empire Thought It Was the Exception: Barry Harvey on the American Shelf Life and What the Church Does Now
Anselm's God Can't Just Forgive: Joerg Rieger on Why That's Good News, Not Cruelty
Embracing Division: Robert P. Jones on Unity, Justice, and the Lines We Have to Draw
Who Owns the Creed? Joerg Rieger on the Conservative Gimmick and the Surplus They Missed
You're Probably Assyria: Anna Sieges on the Book of the Twelve and the Empire You're Actually In
Is That Really a High View of Scripture? Craig Allert on Scripture, Canon, and the Story We Weren't Told
Empire Goes All the Way Down: Joerg Rieger on What "Christian Nationalism" Misses
Ancient Israelite Religions, Plural: Cynthia Shafer-Elliott on Household Shrines, Figurines, and Yahweh's Asherah
Tripp Hijacks Religion on the Mind with Dr. Dan Koch
Constantine Is a Cipher: Tony Jones on the Emperor Everyone Uses and Nobody Knows
Hope Does Not Exist": O'neil Van Horn on Making Hope and the Practice of Resurrection
We're the Ones Lamenting: James McGrath on Reading Revelation from Inside the Empire
Faith Has Been Snorting Modernity This Whole Time: James K.A. Smith on the Trad Wife, the Manosphere, and Hegel
Doubt Is the Door: Chaplains in the Trenches, George MacDonald, and the Bebbington Quadrilateral w/ Timothy Larsen
What If the American Revolution Had Failed? with Diana Butler Bass
Thank God I Am an Atheist: Thomas Jared Farmer on Gianni Vattimo's Weak Thought
The MLK Monument Has No Jesus on It: Vincent Lloyd and Luke Bretherton on Secularism as Ideology
Al Mohler's Nightmare: Interpreting Scripture While Female with Jennifer Garcia Bashaw
Winter in America: The Double Deac Deans on the 250th, Christian Nationalism, and the Questions That Do Not Get Answered
You Are the Christ: Ilia Delio on Taking Paul More Literally Than the Catholic Church
Guilty of Its Own Innocence: Cornel West on Baldwin, Matthiessen, and America's Peter Pan Problem
The Second Naivete of a Nation: Diana Butler Bass on America 250, Anger, and Believing Again
The Allergy to Otherness: What Modernity Did to the Pew Next to You with Ilia Delio
Its Gates Will Never Be Shut: Scott Paeth on Eschatology, the Statue of Liberty, and Patriotism at America 250
We Are Back in 1850: Master Signifiers, Heritage Americans, and the Confession We Stopped Saying with Diana Butler Bass
Thriving Is Climate, Flourishing Is Weather with Pam King
If a Silicon God Arrives, It Will Be the God We Deserve with Robert Wright
Decisional vs. Emotional Forgiveness: The Distinction Most of Us Have Been Missing with Everett Worthington
There Was a Time When God Was Gods with Ilia Delio
Religion Has a Physiology: Ilia & Tripp on Why Rituals Come Before Beliefs
The Machine Is a God Image with Ilia Delio
The Problem Is Not Poverty. It Is Wealth. w/ Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty
Preaching in the WTF Zone: Leah Schade on Saying Something True When the News Will Not Stop
The Darkly Radiant Struggle with Gary Dorrien
Religion Before Belief: What's actually dying and what was always the deeper thing
James Cone Was Right: Gary Dorrien & Charlene Sinclair on Black Theology, the Lynching Tree & the Cry We Keep Not Hearing
The Meme, the Madonna & the Fertility God: Andrew Root on Idolatry, the Church & Late Capitalism
Binge-Watching as Spiritual Formation (And Not in a Good Way)
God Meets Us in Our Suffering: Rolf Jacobson on Cancer, the Theology of the Cross & Three Friends Who Went Through It Together
Sacred Values and Street Power — The Theology of Organizing
Glimmerings: Miroslav Volf & Christian Wiman on Friendship, Faith & Letters That Pressed Them Both
A Story of Being Saved by Love and Grace: Gary Dorrien’s Memoir in His Own Words
America is Obsessed with Problems but Denies Catastrophe
Gary Dorrien on the Niebuhr You Thought You Knew
The Power Made Perfect in Weakness: Nonviolence as Metaphysical Revelation
What Would a New Abolition Be? Gary Dorrien on the Black Social Gospel, Ida B. Wells & Reverdy Ransom
Just War for People Who Actually Know What It Means w/ Kevin Carnahan
I Thought I Was a Doctor: Trump, the Pope & the Most Chaotic Week in Religion News with Diana Butler Bass
Two Eyes, One Reality: Toward Fuller Knowing
Theology for Troublemakers: Gary Dorrien & Aaron Stauffer on Social Ethics for This Moment
a Systematic Theology of Love with Thomas Jay Oord
Adventures in the Spirit: Building a New Architecture for Christian Doctrine w/ Philip Clayton
What God Do They Worship In There? The Black Social Gospel and the Crisis of American Christianity w/ Gary Dorrien
Easter Against the Empire: Faith in a Time of War
Giving the Beast a Stomach Ache: A Peacemaker's Starter Kit for a Time of War
The Sin Is White Supremacy: a Theological Encounter with the Film “Sinners"
The Medium Is the Message — Crossan on Parables, Provocation, and the Pedagogy of Jesus
The Person, Not the Principle: How Bonhoeffer’s Christology Became Treason — and What Eric Metaxas Did With It
The Reason Prayer Feels Impossible (And It's Not Your Fault) w/ Wes Ellis
Tradition Without Traction Is Lame: An enclosed lake and a constitutional crisis w/ John Dominic Crossan
Beer in the Temple? & What the Bible Actually Says About Alcohol w/ John Anthony Dunne
Flying Saucers, Deep Incarnation, and the Covered Dish Dinner: Astro Theology with Ted Peters
Are We Waiting for God, or Is God Waiting for Us? with John Dominic Crossan
MAGA and the Post-Christian America: A Meditation on Power, the Cross, and the World We're Choosing
What Would God's State of the Union Look Like? with John Dominic Crossan
The Universe Is Alive and It Might Be Looking Back: Andrew Davis on Astrotheology
Theses on Reactionaries: How White Evangelicalism Became America's Most Dangerous Ideology with Tad Delay
Keeping Hope Alive: A Conversation with Rev. Jesse Jackson
From Conflict to Collaboration: The Science-Religion Conversation We Need with Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund
Too Fast, Too Furious for Jesus: Justin Lin on Last Days
The Cloud and the Kingdom: Discerning the Spirits of a New Economic Epoch
Steve Bannon Is Not an Idiot: Reinhold Niebuhr's Unheeded Advice for a Democracy in Crisis
When Neighbors Turn on Neighbors with Miroslav Volf
Cheap Grace in a Red Hat, Stealing Bonhoeffer’s Fire: What Bonhoeffer Actually Meant—and Why It Condemns His Admirers
The Bible and the Cosmos: Which Story Comes First? with Dom Crossan & Phil Clayton
The Exhausted Soul and a World Gone Mute: The Economy That Ate Your Soul and Wants to Blame You
A Tale of Two Gods: Why C.S. Lewis's Famous Argument Falls Apart with John Dominic Crossan
Why Postliberals Want Authoritarian Power (And What to Do About It) with David Congdon
Burnout, Burn Up, Burn It Down: Hartmut Rosa's Diagnosis of Modern Life
Bonhoeffer’s Warning, Unheeded: the Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism
Practicing Love Without Being Naive About Power with Marvin Wickware
Paul Tillich's Socialist Decision and the Crisis of American Christianity
The Four Faces of "None": What the Largest Study of Religiously Unaffiliated Americans Reveals
From Philosopher Kings to Billionaire Oligarchs with Tad Delay
AI & Theology
High-Friction Love: The Incarnation in an Age of Smooth Technology
The Great Disconnect: When the Pulpit and the Pew aren't Speaking the Same Language
Rian Johnson on Wake Up Dead Man – Murder, Mystery, and the Search for Grace
Books for Your Friendly Neighborhood Theology Nerd
From Garden to New Jerusalem: Why the Church's Economic Blindness Matters
Bonhoeffer’s Witness Against Christian Nationalism
When Empire Strikes Back: Herod, the Magi, and Holy Resistance
NT Wright on Ephesians: The Church as a Small Working Model of New Creation
Tolkien & Trump: The Professor or the Profligate with Dr. Craig Boyd
Finding Our Way Forward: How Whitehead Shows Us Religion as Life's Creative Force
How the Lectionary Kept Me Christian: Diana Butler Bass on Practicing the Year