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April 2022

April 06, 2022

A Tragic Anniversary: The Politics of Jesus Turns Fifty

Reflections on a book of peace written by a violent man

March 2022

March 09, 2022

Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine: What’s Religion Got to Do with It?

On Russian Orthodoxy as one of the underpinnings of Putin's regime.

February 2022

February 09, 2022

Who Would Jesus Bomb?

On the radical roots of WWJD

January 2022

January 12, 2022

Evangelical Colorblindness

On why the 1990s racial reconciliation moment was less groundbreaking than it appeared to some...

December 2021

December 15, 2021

The 2020 Census, Immigration, and Evangelical Politics

The third and final part of David's series on evangelicals, immigration, and the 2020 Census

November 2021

November 17, 2021

The 2020 Census and Evangelical Immigration, Part II

The jarring result, after centuries of Christian expansion to the East, is a burgeoning phenomenon...

October 2021

October 20, 2021

A Tribute to Sojourners Magazine on Its Fiftieth Birthday

The magazine has consistently encouraged its readers to think better, pray harder, and integrate spiritual...

September 2021

September 22, 2021

The 2020 Census, Immigration, and the Future of American Evangelicalism

A couple of years ago on a Sunday morning, I landed at Logan Airport and...

August 2021

August 25, 2021

Immigrant Strangers in Our Midst: An Interview with Ulrike Stockhausen

Until the 1980s, evangelicals didn’t distinguish between legal immigrants and refugees and “illegal” undocumented immigrants....

July 2021

July 28, 2021

Innocent Readings of Evangelical History

I hate to come down hard on leaders trying to move their tradition away from...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

Rainn Wilson, Dwight Schrute, and the Search for Meaning in Postmodern America

"I was disenchanted with things that were organized," says Wilson.

June 02, 2021

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: Mennocostal Edition

Can Pentecostal spirituality and Mennonite peace move together as a great river flowing with justice...

May 2021

May 05, 2021

René Padilla: Enfant Terrible

Padilla earned his reputation as an enfant terrible who showed no fear in challenging white...

April 2021

April 07, 2021

The Savage My Kinsman: Wheaton Wrestles with the Language of Mission

Wheaton College Wrestles with Its Discourse of Missions

March 2021

March 10, 2021

The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America

Along the way, Griffith pauses this narrative to make an important point: that it didn’t...

February 2021

February 10, 2021

The Danger of a Single Mennonite Story

My ancestors weren't as peaceful as advertised.

January 2021

January 19, 2021

What Were We Thinking? A Brief Intellectual History of Christianity in the Trump Era

As the Trump presidency enters its last day, we look back at some of the...

January 13, 2021

The Sensory Experiences of Child Sponsorship

A conversation with Hillary Kaell about her book that traces the movement of money, letters,...

December 2020

December 16, 2020

Brown Church

As the “Make America Great Again” movement demonstrates, the need for resistance remains.

October 2020

October 21, 2020

The Signs of Wilmore, Kentucky: A Photo Essay

This past Saturday morning, we spent an hour driving around our small Kentucky town taking...

October 06, 2020

What’s College Like under COVID?

What's it like teaching in the middle of a pandemic? Four of our contributors report...

September 2020

September 23, 2020

Quail and Confections: Lessons in Political Civility from Kentucky

Political tension does not preclude civility. Dining together and watching opera together may help.

August 2020

August 26, 2020

When Baptists Believed in the Bible—and Bourbon

The surprising origins of Kentucky's spirit

July 2020

July 29, 2020

Exorcising Quetzalcoatl: Spiritual Warfare in Guatemala—and Beyond

In the 1990s Harold Caballeros was minister of a church of 350 members in Guatemala...

July 01, 2020

Christian Workers, Unite!

Justin Vos continues what is becoming an Anxious Bench series on Dutch Calvinist intellectual thought

June 2020

June 17, 2020

Do Demons Destroy Marriages?

How global experiences have pushed American evangelicals toward Pentecostal sensibilities

June 03, 2020

“All the Order for Us and All the Law for Them”

What makes us think that this week’s version of white evangelical "racial reconciliation" will be...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

The Reformed Evangelicals Who Smoked Pot in Toronto

Evangelicalism can look a lot different across the Canadian border.

May 13, 2020

Non-Religious Turning Points in Religious History: The 20th Century

As our series of non-religious turning points in religious history continues into the 20th century,...

May 06, 2020

Good News to All Nations: An Interview with Lauren Turek

David interviews Lauren Turek on her new book about evangelicals and human rights