It is admirable that Bonhoeffer endeavors to highlight Black life. But one must be careful that the Black life of one’s representation is not playing in the dark of caricatured ...

The squatters’ area was populated by people who had moved from rural areas in northern Argentina to find better work in the ...

The paradox of a slim book is that it can be dense. The weight of the words feels more significant, heavier, when there are ...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face ...

The new movie Bonhoeffer emphasizes similar themes to those of Metaxas’s biography. It situates Bonhoeffer’s story in the ...

To give ourselves to silence in worship is to wait for the Spirit of God who gives us rest.

In the language of the teacher, we want everyone else’s season—a time to weep, a time to break down, a time to tear, a time ...

Like her genre foremothers, the teen sleuth in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder isn’t just solving a crime, she’s figuring out ...

These two stories—of the Norths, their neighbors, and their congregation, Friendship Baptist; and of the White members and ...

Tony Campolo, an American Baptist minister and sociologist who spent decades trying to convince evangelicals and other ...

What if we considered plants as subjects, not objects? How does our perception of our leafy neighbors change when we consider ...