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Reinhold Niebuhr warned us about this moment. His Christian reflection on love and justice anticipated the violence and injustice we are seeing right now, after the presidential election. More
By any account, Trump’s election is a breathtaking indictment of our government and society’s failure to respond to the real or perceived needs of many citizens. It draws attention to genuine anger over how a half-century of economic policy has depleted opportunity and hope among working-class citizens. More
In many ways, Hillary Clinton suffered the fate of Susan B. Anthony and other women in American history who tried to raise the bar of social equality. More
James Madison offered small “r” republican government as the sentry against the universal human tendency “to go low” and enshrine it politically. He thought large republics avoided tyrannies of majority or minority by jamming the political works with significant numbers of elected officials who disagree. More
Read an excerpt from Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber. More
Pastor Frank Amedia, the Trump campaign’s liaison for Christian policy, says he expects evangelicals “will hear [Trump’s] heart They will be able to make decisions based themselves upon seeing the heart of the man, not through the media, not through campaign stumping, but face to face.” More
This poignant collection of correspondence between brothers Daniel and Philip Berrigan, arguably two of the most important Roman Catholics of the 20th century, offers a window into the Catholic peace movement they led and a sense of their epistolary devotion to one another. More
For Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, we recall the life and disappearance of the man who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. His biographer, Ingrid Carlberg, says “he was the kind of person who preferred to act rather than letting time pass by in endless political discussions.” More
In honor of the eight-day Jewish holiday that celebrates faith, exodus, and freedom and that begins with a seder at sundown tonight (April 22), we asked a few writers for poetry about Passover, especially for acrostics—poems in which the first letter of each line spells out Passover or Pesach. More
In six simple words, the Danish firebrand philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard illuminated the difference between faith and human understanding, and Vice President Joe Biden found the expression that has provided him with sustenance in the midst of suffering. More
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