All theology is contextual. The oldest law book in Iceland, Grágás, which emerged sometime between the ninth and 13th centuries, preserves an instruction for emergency baptism when traveling with a ...

The 2024 Netflix drama Joy tells the story of Jean Purdy, a British nurse and embryologist, who in 1968 comes to interview with the physiologist Robert Edwards at his lab in Cambridge. Edwards wants ...

January 21 marks the 500th anniversary of Anabaptism, the day when George Blaurock, a former Catholic priest, was moved by the Spirit to request believers’ baptism from Conrad Grebel. In turn, ...

Sarah Coakley’s characteristically layered and learned inquiry into Christology uses brokenness as the central thread to stitch together accounts of often disparate doctrinal inquiries: the cross, ...

Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renowned authors, leaders, public figures, and scholars on religion, ...

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

In her 1993 hymn, “Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom,” the Ruth C. Duck personified wisdom as “she who clears the path to justice, showing us what love must do.” The same can be said of Duck, the ...

Ridley Scott’s movies are often splashy epics about near impossible feats undertaken by flawed but honorable and charismatic men. His subjects are both historical heroes (Napoleon, 2023; Robin Hood, ...

John D. Roth is project director of MennoMedia’s Anabaptism at 500 project, which commemorates the first adult baptisms in Zurich in January 1525—the symbolic start of the Anabaptist movement. Before ...

Last April, when students at Emory University began their encampment to protest the war in Gaza and demand divestment, I showed up as a faith leader to support and witness students at Candler School ...

Some time ago, I started to notice a habit shared by many of the mainline clergy of my acquaintance. Whenever a subject comes up that touches on their professional expertise, they turn awkward and ...

Richard Hays, a renowned New Testament scholar and former dean of Duke Divinity School known for his influential books on Christian ethics and his change of mind about same-sex marriage, died January ...