Featured

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Redeeming the Soul of America
Martin Luther King exemplified a way of working toward racial justice in the spirit of Jesus.
Gary Dorrien
Essay
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Powers and Principalities: King and the Holy Spirit
White supremacy, economic oppression, and militarism are spiritual realities in their own right, demonic powers that must be combatted with spiritual weapons.
Eugene F. Rivers III
Essay
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Two Friends, Two Prophets
“Racism is Satanism.” It was this conviction that launched Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel into the American civil rights movement.
Susannah Heschel
Essay
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The Casualties of War
Today, seventeen years into the “War on Terror,” King’s moral clarity about war can help us face our own set of militaristic confusions.
Brandon M. Terry
Essay
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For the Love of Neighbor
The more I hang out in refugee communities, the more I see “the Other America” that King spoke about.
D. L. Mayfield
Essay
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A Child Named Problem
A firsthand account of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: a child born in the jungle, and a man who wants to stay and help his people.
Oddny Gumaer
Dispatch

From the Editor

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The Prophet We Need Now
Martin Luther King Jr. matters too much to be abandoned to dutiful documentaries and corporate wokeness campaigns.
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor

Insights

Painting of Mary in a blue robe holding the lifeless body of Jesus in a rural landscape.
Liberation at the Cross
What we seek in Christ is true freedom, the freedom that transforms the heart, the freedom the risen Christ announces to us today, “Seek what is above.”
Oscar Romero
Reading
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Definition of a Good Farmer
Long before regenerative agriculture was a thing, this farmer advocated for respect and care for the land.
Philip Britts
Reading
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Were You There?
How do you teach children about suffering – the suffering they will go through, and that Christ went through on Good Friday?
Maureen Swinger
Community Snapshot
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Words that Got Martin Luther King Jr. Shot
The pronouncements that got Martin Luther King Jr. killed are probably not those that appear on inspirational posters today.
Martin Luther King Jr
Inklings
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Staying Rooted and Unbalanced
The life and art of Benny Andrews, from sharecropper to art activist.
Veery Huleatt
Portfolio
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Justice and the Old Testament Prophets
“I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.”
Portfolio
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The Naturalist’s Journal: Sightings
Notes from a naturalist’s journal: an eastern cotton tail, a fawn, and a chattering baby raccoon.
Dwight Wareham
The Naturalist

Arts & Letters

Woman with brown hair in braid resting her head on hand on a bridge railing outdoors.
Poem: Gaza Is Not Far Away
It’s in your cuffs. The cup you just drank from. Empty bucket outside your back door with an inch of rain in it...
Naomi Shihab Nye
Poetry
Painting of a couple embracing under a large red umbrella with a musician playing violin nearby.
Defending Purity
Reading Dietrich von Hildebrand in a #MeToo age: a review of In Defense of Purity.
Nathaniel Peters
Review
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Robert Frost’s “Birches”
A graphic interpretation of Robert Frost’s poem “Birches.”
Julian Peters
Comic
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Readers Respond: Issue 16
Amish technology; work and love; Mormons, transhumanists, and immortality; simulating Lent with Silicon Valley’s rationalists.
Forum