Curated

Notre-Dame taught me – and still teaches me – that the physical, tangible things of this good earth have the power to mediate something transcendent.

Without diminishing the grief felt at the shuttering seminaries, it is useful to take a longer perspective on the recent headlines. These institutional changes are neither as unexpected nor as unprecedented as they seem.

When Vous Church was born last fall, Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. was already almost famous, having officiated the wedding of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian and attended to the soul, such as it is, of Justin Bieber.

Some claim a practice meant to protect marginalized communities can also ostracize those who disagree with them. Others argue being aware of students’ traumatic experiences and giving them a heads up is basic human decency.

Q&A with Kenyatta Gilbert, author of “A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights.”

Israel is supposed to provide equal treatment to its citizens both Palestinian and Jewish, as it calls itself a “democratic” country. However, I did not notice anybody else except me treated in this way.

About 170 years ago, they were one congregation, albeit a church of masters and slaves. Then the fight over abolition and slavery began and the churches separated by race.

A top French court on Aug. 26 suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has angered Muslims, feminists and civil liberties campaigners.

We know that social media’s virtual reality threatens actual reality: eating away at the social ligaments of human bonding; offering more information and less perspective; fast-tracking rumor, gossip and fear-mongering.

The widespread Christian failure to understand and experience God as Trinity has provided a breeding ground for both implicit and explicit racism.