At Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center nestled deep in the Cascades, I asked my students to consider their vocation in ...

The river wild, current fierce against my legs, feet unsteady, I watch fish rising on the other side, too far to reach, each ...

She is the cohost of the Encountering Silence podcast, and the creator of the Contemplating Now and Queering Contemplation ...

“How can you not believe in God after Auschwitz?” A rabbi put this question to Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, ...

Harvard University has settled two lawsuits with Jewish groups that claimed the school had not taken appropriate steps to ...

We need each other. We need the God who shows up when we share our lives, when we open ourselves to the Spirit’s care made ...

The sermon’s duration was less than 15 minutes. Its theme—a call for unity grounded in faith at a time of political ...

When Jason E. Shelton brought his grandmother from Cleveland, Ohio, to his Texas church four years ago, he had to prepare her ...

Rafia Amina Khader is director of religion programs at Chautauqua Institution. From theological reflections to breaking ...

Last year, a doctoral student studying theology and food reached out to ask me for my thoughts. “There is so much writing on agrarian theology,” he said. “And a lot on the table, but almost nothing on ...

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An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office appears to keep all but a few refugees from entering the country, saying that the United States lacks the resources to ...