From the Editors

A crushing lack of humanity

Both Apple’s “Crush” ad and Catholic Answers’ AI priest alarmed people. There’s some hope in that reaction.

Voices

A pulpit without a context

I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.
by Melissa Florer-Bixler
Voices

Too much mystery?

Leaving evangelicalism allowed me to embrace the mystery of faith. I wonder if I’ve taken it too far.
by Debie Thomas
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Features

Coffee justice in Mexico

Café Justo’s alternative to the fair trade model keeps the means of production—and most of the profit—in the local community.
by Amy Frykholm
Voices

How empires spread religion

A global map of Christianity is stalked by imperial ghosts.
by Philip Jenkins

Books

An evangelical scholar reads scripture through Artemis

Sandra Glahn shows how the Greek goddess’s prestige influenced the portrayal of women in Ephesians and 1 Timothy.
by Elizabeth Felicetti

Karl Barth in a nutshell

Marty Folsom does what no previous scholar has done: make Church Dogmatics available to all.
by William H. Willimon

Navigating James Baldwin’s legacy

Greg Garrett provides a road map for the terrain of the prophetic writer’s work and thought.
by Jon Mathieu

The Pharisees didn’t kill Jesus

If they had been the ones presiding over Jesus’ trial, says biblical scholar Israel Knohl, there wouldn’t have been a crucifixion.
by Zen Hess

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An evangelical scholar reads scripture through Artemis

Sandra Glahn shows how the Greek goddess’s prestige influenced the portrayal of women in Ephesians and 1 Timothy.
by Elizabeth Felicetti
Voices

Too much mystery?

Leaving evangelicalism allowed me to embrace the mystery of faith. I wonder if I’ve taken it too far.
by Debie Thomas
Features

Coffee justice in Mexico

Café Justo’s alternative to the fair trade model keeps the means of production—and most of the profit—in the local community.
by Amy Frykholm

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From the Editors

A crushing lack of humanity

Both Apple’s “Crush” ad and Catholic Answers’ AI priest alarmed people. There’s some hope in that reaction.
Voices

A pulpit without a context

I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.
by Melissa Florer-Bixler

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Coffee justice in Mexico

Café Justo’s alternative to the fair trade model keeps the means of production—and most of the profit—in the local community.
by Amy Frykholm
Voices

How empires spread religion

A global map of Christianity is stalked by imperial ghosts.
by Philip Jenkins
Features

A land dispute in the Old City

Armenian activists in Jerusalem are outraged over an agreement to lease communal land to a hotel developer.
by Gil Zohar
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Tear gas over the soccer field

“You’re welcome to take it back home with you,” my Palestinian friend said as I looked at the US-made canister in my hand. “Actually, take all of them.”
by Isaac S. Villegas

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