the Web Editors 5-22-2020

The politics in ‘Mrs. America,’ evangelicals in Brazil, and finding joy right now. 

Jim Wallis 5-21-2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has now laid bare what is still “acceptable” to white America, including many white churches. The unequal suffering of this plague has been verified by the statistics. 

Melissa Cedillo 5-21-2020

When I began my time at Harvard Divinity School, I considered using my degree towards becoming a prison chaplain. But the more I learned about the exploitation of incarcerated people, their families, and their communities, I realized the pursuit of this ministry must be done in a way that does not reinforce the prison-industrial complex

Even while Brazil is a COVID-19 global hot spot, some pastors flout social distancing. 

Randall Balmer 5-20-2020

Symbolically, the Scopes Trial on teaching evolution was a turning point.

Matthew L. Watley 5-20-2020

What is needed now, as always, is real moral leadership.

Jason L. Miller 5-20-2020

Catholicism, COVID-19, and caring for our common home. 

Kaeley McEvoy 5-19-2020

One of the biggest gleanings from Mrs. America is that women and their motivations for power are complicated and far from monolithic.

COVID-19 reveals the artificiality of the urban/rural divide. 

Podcast   5-19-2020

Rev. Jim Wallis talks with Myungsung Church's lead pastor Rev. Hana Kim about South Korea's response to COVID-19 and the moral, ethical, and religious imperative we have to help the most vulnerable as Jesus commands, many of whom are more at-risk during this global crisis.