by David Lai
Three months before King laid out his religious treatise justifying civil disobedience in a Birmingham jail cell, he attended the 14–17 January 1963 National Conference on Religion and Race. The conference, gathering some seven hundred religious Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish leaders at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, advertised itself as the first ecumenical conference organized to address race relations.…
by Micah Yongo
For the sensible Christian, reckoning well with modernity means cultivating a willingness to upgrade the resolution at which we examine both it and ourselves.…
by Luke Schulz
We killed the mystical element, believing that we were freeing ourselves from superstitious nonsense. In so doing, we forgot that the human mind exists in a balance. The result has been the current dominance of the masculine element, rationality, while the mystical ‘feminine’ has been relegated to the margins at best.…
by Soo-Inn Tan
Love, purpose, resilience, the answer to the reality of death, and a hunger for transcendence. If we have these five things in place in our lives, we have a good chance of living a meaningful life.…
by Matthew Dickerson
Although I’d been with my father for the two-hour neurological examination two weeks earlier, I wasn’t present for the follow-up when the doctors formally announced a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. I was camping and teaching by a wilderness lake in Alaska, with two fellow instructors and ten students.…