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When ‘everyone is welcome’ comes with fine print

After my lifelong connection with evangelical faith, midlife has unearthed surprise skepticism about what once was sacred ground. Unexpected questions crowd my thoughts about church and what it means. This includes questioning the fine print beneath the slogans I once…

The realists’ war and a call for strategic restraint

My mother was a medical student in Kabul when the realists came. They came first as Soviet advisers, then as mujahideen commanders, then as American strategists playing the long game against Moscow. Each faction arrived certain it understood the situation…

Why homophobia is really about women

Alex and I are treated differently. That’s not a complaint, and it isn’t something either of us spends much time dwelling on, (I’m not sure he’s even noticed) but it’s simply true. We’re both gay men. We’re now married to…

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

To understand the judicial legacy of Clarence Thomas is to examine a decades-long exercise in institutional alienation. His trajectory on the Supreme Court cannot be viewed merely through the lens of conservative legal theory; rather, it is defined by a…

The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist

As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have…

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war

The morality of warfare has been in the news recently. This occurs every so often, usually when the United States launches a dubious military action (like the one against Iran) and someone in the administration (like JD Vance) claims the support…

In conversation with Scott Cairns

Scott Cairns is a poet and writer who is the Curators Distinguished Professor of English emeritus at the University of Missouri. He is the author of poetry collections such as Slow Pilgrim, and of the spiritual autobiography Short Trip to…

As Owens spins conspiracies, Kirk’s alleged killer gets day in court

As the case against Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin goes public next week in an evidentiary trial in Utah, the cottage industry of conspiracy theories about Kirk’s death has accelerated. The official story — not yet adjudicated in court — is…

First they came for the Mormons

These days, you’d think we wouldn’t be shocked by a new weekly, daily or hourly religio-political-cultural-rightward-revisionism in the land of the free and the home of Project 2025. But “adjusting” to such practices seems abidingly stressful and/or depressing to many…

Jane Roe case against Patterson dropped before trial

Republican leaders worried ICE murders will damage their agenda

When the president targets Muslim kindergartners, families like mine also pay the price

Trans protections targeted after Supreme Court ruling

When ‘everyone is welcome’ comes with fine print

The realists’ war and a call for strategic restraint

Why homophobia is really about women

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war

In conversation with Scott Cairns

As Owens spins conspiracies, Kirk’s alleged killer gets day in court

First they came for the Mormons

A Baptist reading of Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas

Four years later, anti-abortionists battle on other fronts

Churches, pay attention: Americans gave $617 billion last year

Ezra Jin describes harsh prison conditions in first comments since release from China

Embryo personhood, once on the margins of abortion debates, is moving closer to the center

How a 2,300-mile Walk for Peace thrust a Texas monk and his rescue dog into the spotlight

Some World Cup fans are blaming Brazil’s loss on evangelicals

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Jane Roe case against Patterson dropped before trial

Republican leaders worried ICE murders will damage their agenda

When the president targets Muslim kindergartners, families like mine also pay the price

Trans protections targeted after Supreme Court ruling