Kirk may indeed be the perfect embodiment of the Christian missionary. Some will see that as a cause to mourn his death. Others will see this as an indictment of the history of Christian mission and ...

David W. Congdon is senior editor at the University Press of Kansas and lecturer in religious studies at the University of Kansas. His most recent book is Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious ...

I am lying in a hospital bed. This year I have spent nearly two months in the hospital, recovering from massive abdominal surgery and learning to live, practically and spiritually, with intestinal ...

Laura McMasters, a longtime campus minister, performed her first baptism in February—welcoming an international student into the Christian faith and United Methodist community.McMasters, a deacon, had ...

Peter Ackroyd sees a special historical relationship between the development of a distinctively English sensibility and that of the ...

Recently I reread the Psalms. I could feel the turbulence of the world that gave birth to them.

We spend a lot of time identifying kids with talent and training them on technique,” says writer Carey Wallace. “But there’s virtually no rigorous thought ...

Together with their complementary social and physical infrastructure, these institutions map an enduring moral geography that guides how we live and move in the world. We cannot survive in isolation, ...

Nearly 700 people packed the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday to witness the installation of Winnie Varghese, the first queer woman of color named ...

According to historian Rebecca Graham, FDR’s labor secretary saved tens of thousands of refugees from the Nazis—and narrowly ...

Condon quotes a passage from Mason Gaffney and Fred Harrison’s 1994 book The Corruption of Economics, in which they outline some of the reasons George’s solid arguments for taxing or curbing land rent ...

There is, then, a larger lesson in this story, as in many other biblical stories, about imperfect leaders and God’s work through them despite their shortcomings. Placing trust in human saviors has ...