Featured

Hating Sinners
Love the sinner, hate the sin? The trouble is, that’s not how hatred works.
Mary Townsend
Essay
Walls behind Bars
Two friends risk defying a racist prison culture.
Antoine E. Davis
Aaron Olson
Dispatch
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
Demining the Sahara
Meet the Saharawi women replacing landmines with trees.
Maria Novella De Luca
Alice Pistolesi
Monica Pelliccia
Portfolio
Just Doing What Christians Do
Forgiving beheaders, praying for enemies – it’s a daily reality for Coptic Christians.
Archbishop Angaelos
Interview

From the Editor

Tough Love on the Mount
Who were those enemies Jesus expected his oppressed listeners to love?
Timothy J. Keiderling
Editorial

Insights

Students Brave the Heat
Conflict can be fruitful when students don’t just debate, but listen to one another.
Leah Libresco Sargeant
Essay
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
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
How God Sees Us
We must learn to see the divine worth in everyone regardless of how they treat us.
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
Reading
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
Tim Keller: New York’s Pastor
The quintessential Manhattan pastor held the door open to everyone.
Susannah Black Roberts
Lives

Web Exclusives

Visions of the Kingdom
Around the world and throughout its history, church architecture has sought to portray the New Jerusalem.
Roberta Green Ahmanson
Do Activists Need Enemies?
Saul Alinsky advises demonizing the opposition. Is there a better way?
Vincent Lloyd
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

What Is Time For?
Everyone is too busy. How would we spend our time if we weren’t?
Zena Hitz
Essay
Poem: “Lammergeier”
Riding a thermal ever higher / With its clutched prize.
Stephen Edgar
Poetry
Poem: “South Head, a Wild Surmise”
The cliff face dropping sheer into the sea, / With its plosive dowse / Of surge and foam
Stephen Edgar
Poetry
Poem: “World Within”
A lake of waterlilies, spread / At the day’s heart, to keep the day.
Stephen Edgar
Poetry