Pastoral power may offer the possibility of a politics of hope and care, one that prioritises people over abstract notions like the market or national security.
Julian Forth speaks with Susie Triffitt about the nature of homelessness and forms of Christian response.
Cornwall helpfully invites readers to think of a dying church “as a terminally ill patient who helps others, rather than preserving its own future, even whilst accepting that it is in what looks like terminal decline.” What would it mean for a congregation, a seminary, or even a denomination to die well, even to offer faithful witness in its passing away?
How is wealth produced, whose labor produces it, and who bears the cost?
Chile’s fertility rate has fallen below one child per woman, and the question that raises is not whether parents still love their children, but what a society owes the people it asks to do the caring.
Emily Theus speaks with Susannah Crockford about her new book on religion and climate change.
Historically, it’s been interpreted as one should be expectant of the Second Coming of Christ at all times… Yet the parable seems to be simpler than this. It’s about being intentional, present, and prepared.
This was a riff on the familiarly Aristotelian concept of the monstrous birth, in which a child came out lacking resemblances to his mother and father (mainly his father)—a kind of monstrous rebirth, in which the work of semen and gestation was written over by the work of alien suckling.
Cara Rock-Singer examines what reproductive processes reveal about religious and political life and shows how Jewish tradition is transmitted and reinvented through the ongoing labor of reproduction.
Who are you: a tasty morsel or unpalatable fibre? Choose wisely, because the dinner bell is ringing.
Progressive Catholic commentators persistently interpret Pope Leo XIV as a character in America’s resistance to Donald Trump. His July 4 visit to Lampedusa implies that he is conveying a significantly larger narrative.