Featured

Medieval knight in armor on a horse aiming a lance at a snail on ornate vine decoration.
Hating Sinners
Love the sinner, hate the sin? The trouble is, that’s not how hatred works.
Mary Townsend
Essay
Abstract geometric painting with interconnected polygon shapes in blue and gray tones.
Walls behind Bars
Two friends risk defying a racist prison culture.
Antoine E. Davis
Aaron Olson
Dispatch
Double exposure of a woman’s profile blended with autumn leaves background.
My Mind, My Enemy
When mental illness struck, my mind became my enemy. Would I battle it, or learn to love it?
Sarah Clarkson
Personal History
Two people in protective gear walking in a desert clearing marked with small white flags.
Demining the Sahara
Meet the Saharawi women replacing landmines with trees.
Maria Novella De Luca
Alice Pistolesi
Monica Pelliccia
Portfolio
Mosaic art of religious figures with halos, crosses, and raised arms beneath stone arches and mountains.
Just Doing What Christians Do
Forgiving beheaders, praying for enemies – it’s a daily reality for Coptic Christians.
Archbishop Angaelos
Interview

From the Editor

Group of men in traditional robes and head coverings in a dimly lit room with menorahs on the walls.
Tough Love on the Mount
Who were those enemies Jesus expected his oppressed listeners to love?
Timothy J. Keiderling
Editorial

Insights

Four people in colored halftone effect engaged in a serious group discussion.
Students Brave the Heat
Conflict can be fruitful when students don’t just debate, but listen to one another.
Leah Libresco Sargeant
Essay
Painting of a person holding a lit candle at dusk with houses silhouetted against a cloudy sky.
The Witching Hour
We start the day intentionally and prayerfully, but all bets are off after five o’clock p.m.
Kathleen A Mulhern
Essay
Abstract colorful painting with thick textured brush strokes in blue, orange, red, green, and black.
Enemy Lovers
Five historical figures respond to real enemies.
Saint John Chrysostom
Etty Hillesum
Martin Luther King Jr
Thich Nhat Hanh
Christian de Cherge
Reading
Illustration of people with umbrellas in rain, one shows ribs and a small red heart inside.
How God Sees Us
We must learn to see the divine worth in everyone regardless of how they treat us.
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
Reading
Sepia photo of a man fixing or tending a wooden fence in a rural field with trees in the background.
Macedonia Morning
A decade before the protest movements of the sixties, Staughton Lynd and other visionaries were laying a foundation in the hills of Georgia.
Dana Wiser
Lives
Older man with glasses in a gray blazer sitting on a bench on a tree-lined city street.
Tim Keller: New York’s Pastor
The quintessential Manhattan pastor held the door open to everyone.
Susannah Black Roberts
Lives

Web Exclusives

Ornate church ceiling with gold mosaics showing biblical figures and Jesus surrounded by arches and columns.
Visions of the Kingdom
Around the world and throughout its history, church architecture has sought to portray the New Jerusalem.
Roberta Green Ahmanson
Close-up of a dart hitting the bullseye on a dartboard with motion blur on the dart's flight.
Do Activists Need Enemies?
Saul Alinsky advises demonizing the opposition. Is there a better way?
Vincent W. Lloyd
Women standing outdoors in a line holding posters, one woman in front wears a cap that says BERTA.
The Making of Martyrs
Recent assassinations of women leading environmental and land reform movements in Honduras have galvanized a people with a long history of martyrdom.
Robert Donnelly

Arts & Letters

A man with closed eyes reads a book as a white-robed hand rests gently above him on a green textured background.
What Is Time For?
Everyone is too busy. How would we spend our time if we weren’t?
Zena Hitz
Essay
Bird of prey with wings spread soaring over a blue body of water.
Poem: “Lammergeier”
Riding a thermal ever higher / With its clutched prize.
Stephen Edgar
Poem
Sunset over a river with city skyline and bridge in the distance, sun reflecting on water surface.
Poem: “South Head, a Wild Surmise”
The cliff face dropping sheer into the sea, / With its plosive dowse / Of surge and foam
Stephen Edgar
Poem
Wetland scene with water lilies floating and sparse trees reflecting on calm water under a blue sky.
Poem: “World Within”
A lake of waterlilies, spread / At the day’s heart, to keep the day.
Stephen Edgar
Poem