Issue 139

After Ten Years: A Reckoning Made in December 2025

by Ryan Andrew Newson      In 1943, following a decade of resistance to fascism, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sketched out ...

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Becoming Antonio

  by Angela Denker      Antonio (name changed for privacy reasons) wasn’t sure he’d be able to talk ...

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“I have not come to bring peace”: On Embracing Theological and Political Conflict

by Isaac Horwedel      Christianity is constituted by conflict. Like most of the world’s religions, it presupposes that ...

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Beneath the Shouting: Leading with Contemplative Presence

by Julie Pennington-Russell    “Look at the fig tree,” Jesus once told his disciples. “When it sprouts leaves, you ...

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Womanist Witness against White Christian Nationalism

by Angela N. Parker A nation’s religion is its life, and as such white Christianity is a miserable ...

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Christian Ethics Today…for such a time as this

by Pat Anderson, editor    The articles found herein express the thoughts and analyses of the plight of Jesus-followers ...

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When the Left You Ignore Is the Faith You Forgot – The Tradition of American Social Reform

by Charles Marsh    If a federal agent intent on advancing an “America First” agenda in the nation’s universities ...

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The Art of the Gospel: Christian Ethics, Racial Terror, and Moral Imagination in a Time of White Christian Nationalism

by Elijah R. Zehyoue Walking to Church in a Militarized City    I was in Washington, D.C., on a ...

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The Lie That Killed Renee Good Is Strangling Democracy: How a casualty of America’s culture wars clarifies our task in this moment

by William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove     On the morning of January 7th in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ICE ...

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Pastoral Questions in Our Conflicted Era

by Cody J. Sanders, guest co-editor    The questions I am most often asked by students preparing for ministry ...

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