by Paul Lewis | Apr 7, 2026 | Opinion
It is well known that Western modernity has emphasized freedom from many things, among them capricious rulers, superstition, and religious authority. What is the cost, however, if freedom is untethered from profound commitments to the good, the true, and the...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 6, 2026 | Opinion
Mark Doox’s fourth solo exhibition with Jonathan LeVine Projects, Love Has Never Been a Popular Movement, is a moment of truth, a reckoning with the words we say and the nefarious ways of being racialized, Christian, and American. Love is the way and yet, so few...
by Mary Dyer | Apr 6, 2026 | Opinion
On June 16, 2015, my wife, Sheryl and I were at a workshop in St. Louis. During a break, we stepped out into the street and witnessed a crowd of LGBTQ+ folks walking boldly by, waving Pride flags, with a government building next to them displaying a large one flying...
by Elizabeth Troyer | Apr 6, 2026 | Opinion
When I read the Gospels, I do not meet a Jesus who is obsessed with keeping people out. I meet a Jesus who keeps making room. He makes room for the sick, the ashamed, the poor, the outsider, the woman with a reputation, the tax collector everyone hates, and the...
by Mitch Randall | Apr 5, 2026 | Opinion
When the sun breaks over the Eastern horizon on Easter morning, the world will wake to another somber day filled with unjust war, economic crisis, and continued bigotry even after the miracle of resurrection. Why such a dark start to Easter morning? Because...
by Kerri Fisher | Apr 3, 2026 | Opinion
Today is “Good Friday.” I remain curious and somewhat concerned about what we each might think is good about it. Many of us were handed crucifixion theologies that ascribe exclusively to a substitutionary theory of atonement. In that framework, when the question...
