By the author’s own description, this is a history book, not a polemic or a political manifesto. It is a concise overview of the many and various understandings of the term liberal. In a tone that is ...

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Rosellina Avoscan knows from experience what she calls “the loneliness of not belonging to anybody or anywhere.” At 14, she ...

St. Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) has gone down in Christian history as a philosopher, mystic, and leader at a time when such ...

I’m sure there are good uses for AI in our churches. Prayer and preaching aren’t ...

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Alea Peister is a copywriter at a marketing firm. She recently received her MFA in spiritual writing from Seattle ...

Remembering WalterJason Edwards’s eulogy of Walter Brueggemann was eloquent and profound—almost good enough for Walter (“Walter Brueggemann’s gift of disruption,” August).—Terree NewberryGray, ...

Father William Hart McNichols (he/him) is widely known as one of the world’s most gifted iconographers. A former Jesuit and student of Franciscan iconographer Robert Lentz, Fr. Bill’s icons have been ...

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