Irving Greenberg, an acclaimed writer and Orthodox rabbi, has influenced practically every facet of American Jewish life. He ...

On a trip back to the Indiana Dunesfor a week of vacation, I drive past my mother’sold house—corner of Idler and Wells—several times a day. She’s been gonetwenty years, but I can’t help ...

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one ...

When I deconstructed my evangelical faith, I felt isolated, disillusioned, and hopeless. Now, as I experience a resurgence of ...

What Eugene Peterson did for the pastoral imagination, Brueggemann did for the prophetic one. He made scripture strange again ...

The longtime Lilly Endowment vice president’s impact is felt in the hospitable spaces he cultivated, the disciplined ...

What are we looking for when we’re looking for queer?” asks theologian Lisa Isherwood. “I’m looking for a wider picture ...

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a nonprofit organization that advocates for separation of state and church and for ...

Roman elite interests associated the Jesus movement with broader groups that it made into criminalized targets. Williams ...

To date, women only make up 28 percent of Congress, 33 percent of all elected officials within state legislatures, and 33 ...

“K nowing is not enough; we must apply,” says Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. “Willing is not enough; we must do.” One thing ...

Walter Brueggemann, one of the most widely respected Bible scholars of the past century, died June 5 at his home in Michigan.