Churches are closing. What should they do with their assets? Invested Faith offers one possibility: give them to social entrepreneurs doing transformative work.

Whiteness rooted in place “All of our efforts at changing the social fabric of this country must begin with changing the geographic fabric.” ...

What's the text: Alternatives to the common lectionary The RCL includes a few "optional" readings, to be subbed in as needed. Of course, it's all optional.

Encountering the sacred Black feminine “God’s social location is nowhere near women or Black people. I had to start looking for an image of the Divine that can speak to that.” ...

Praise God in luminescence!Praise for the semi-iridescence of a kingfisher wingPraise for viridescencePraise for the marcescence of a blazing beech treePraise for inflorescence of the swaggering ...

What we think we know about God “Anyone who thinks he knows the orthodox consensus can always be shown to be wrong,” says David Bentley Hart.

Philip Jenkins teaches at Baylor University. His latest book is Kingdoms of This World: How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions.

Iconographer Kelly Latimore sees God in plain sight “People asked, ‘Is it George Floyd or Jesus?’ My answer was yes.” ...

Gods who make worlds By definition, epic fantasy involves a world with a creator. Tad Williams’s Osten Ard is the best since Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

In Canto 19 of Inferno, Dante depicts the damned souls of the simoniacs—those who enriched themselves by selling sacred things—imprisoned head-down in circular holes in the rock, feet on fire. Dante ...

The Latter-day Saint canon consists of four books: the Bible and three other texts—the Book of Mormon, the Book of Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. Each reads very much like the ...

Who is Jesus for Muslims? “According to Islam, Jesus always speaks the truth. The question is how we understand it.” ...