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 ...

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

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

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

Audrey Thibert is a religion journalism fellow at Religion News Service. From theological reflections to breaking religion ...

Jason G. Edwards is pastor at Second Baptist Church in Liberty, Missouri. From theological reflections to breaking religion ...

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

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

Whether Jesus was held to the cross with nails or with ropes, what matters is that he was ingloriously and brutally killed by ...