theology

In the first season of Adult Swim’s Black Jesus, the titular hero discovers that the tomatoes he and his friends are growing in the community garden seem to mysteriously and magically have the same…

An interview with musician Matt Morris, millennial Christian (with a Pagan detour).

Michael Long’s new book, Peaceful Neighbor, dares to place Mister Rogers in his social, historical, and political context.

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones/Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold… who kept thy truth so pure of old. – John Milton on the 1655 slaughter of 1,700 Waldensians at the hands…

Seriously, God can’t handle a little honest questioning?

Jerry Garcia said once that he didn’t care much for the Western God—but that didn’t stop him from creating a religion of his own, complete with “ tie dye, skulls, and swirling skirts.” But just how…

“I held my tongue as she told me, ‘Son, fear is the heart of love.’ So I never went back.” – Death Cab for Cutie, from “I Will Follow You into the Dark” (2005) Ahead of today’s historic Supreme Court…

Not everyone has achieved their whiteness. Some cannot achieve it. Others do not want to attain it, and some live in constant frustration in their failure to secure it.

In the evangelical world in which I was born and raised, Elisabeth Elliot (who died on June 15) and her husband Jim Elliot were modern day saints. Being of the Protestant persuasion, we didn’t believe…

In May, four girls at a Colombian high school experienced a supernatural encounter so profound they had to be taken to the emergency room in an ambulance. The girls had been playing a game called the…