The new movie Bonhoeffer emphasizes similar themes to those of Metaxas’s biography. It situates Bonhoeffer’s story in the ...

Barbara Ann Holmes was a spiritual visionary who perceived deeper, broader, and wider than those around her. She brought new conversation partners into ongoing discussions, with a constant eye toward ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face ...

What if we considered plants as subjects, not objects? How does our perception of our leafy neighbors change when we consider ...

To give ourselves to silence in worship is to wait for the Spirit of God who gives us rest.

My decades of church life have been full of the stuff one might expect from a place that promises God and only ...

Tony Campolo, an American Baptist minister and sociologist who spent decades trying to convince evangelicals and other ...

one Sunday when my daughter held to the glass a sign she’d made: I love you God. Then she, too, lived within a story all her ...

In the language of the teacher, we want everyone else’s season—a time to weep, a time to break down, a time to tear, a time ...

Like her genre foremothers, the teen sleuth in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder isn’t just solving a crime, she’s figuring out ...

These two stories—of the Norths, their neighbors, and their congregation, Friendship Baptist; and of the White members and ...

Monica A. Coleman is professor of Africana studies at the University of Delaware and author of Bipolar Faith. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian ...