When record executives urged Sinéad O’Connor to grow her hair long and wear more feminine clothing, she shaved her head instead. Ironically, this only accentuated her ethereal features—it made her ...

Should Christians who uphold the Bible as the word of God have to choose between love of God and love of the queer people in their lives? While the answer may seem obvious to most readers of this ...

Death hovers above my head. Scythe in one hand and scales in the other, he stares down at me. Skeletons greet me, bowing their heads and imploring me to pray. There are bones before me, bones behind ...

I have always wanted to see the look on Qoheleth’s face. An innovative thespian on a spiritual quest recently gave me that chance. A colleague from the theater department at my university had told me ...

In almost every lecture I have ever given on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, someone has asked this question: Are we in a Bonhoeffer moment? It is usually a question about some current issue of moral urgency, a ...

Women without children, like me, may be disturbed by the assertion in 1 Timothy 2:15 that women will be “saved through childbearing.” Where does that leave us? Sandra Glahn understands this concern ...

The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way to a hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself.

The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way toa hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian ...

The Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an celebrate the courage of a woman and her daughter from an ethnically marginalized class: ...

Nicole Schrag teaches English and writing at the University of Tampa. From theological reflections to breaking religion news ...

Meggan Watterson finds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla a seven-step journey for personal growth.

Hospitality as an exercise of Christian faith is not groundbreaking theology. The hospitality of early Christian communities was so great it earned them the ire of the Roman government. “These impious ...