Well here goes! My first substack post for my new substack ‘Theologies Unbound’. Here I’m reflecting on what it means to do theologies by starting with embodied experiences of trauma. It’s free to rea...

Berry’s belief that humans have a responsibility to care for God’s creation traces back to the Book of Genesis. So does an opposing argument for environmental exploitation.

Ken Stone

Kate Rigby highlights how religion shapes environmental perceptions and practices and urges greater attention to religious studies in the environmental humanities.

LGBTQ+ people spend much more on health insurance than the rest of the population, according to a new study.

Democratic socialists are getting more of the attention, but Democratic Christians have also had significant victories in this year’s primaries—and they could prove more influential in the midterm ele...

It wasn’t enough to sing of God’s love, Dolly Parton felt she had to share it. And share it she did.

The next edition of Theology Beer Camp will unfold Oct. 8-10 at Pine Ridge Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Mo.

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

Higher oil prices since the Iran war began mean many oil companies have brought in excess profits. Some U.S. lawmakers want to tax those windfall profits and give the money to lower-income Americans.

Bernard Schlager

(RNS) — The largest Presbyterian denomination in the US and the American Academy of Religion both referred to Israel's war in Gaza as genocide in new resolutions condemning the war.

(RNS) — 'He told me that Matthew 25 was about individuals, and not nations,' Sen. Raphael Warnock said, referring to Speaker Mike Johnson. 'The text actually says nations.' Warnock added: “It's a ver...

His church thinks electric guitars are the devil’s work. But Father Tabakis is on a mission to change that – with Paradise Metal, a religious dubstep album that outdid Daft Punk and Aphex Twin

This AAR Resolution on Solidarity with Gaza was submitted by a group of more than 25 AAR members and will be considered during the 2026 Annual Business Meeting on June 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM ET. Accordin...

In this book, Chance E. Bonar offers a reception history of Onesimus from the first century until today in order to demonstrate the value of apocryphal Christian traditions. Bonara? TMs book highlight...

A new multi-faith declaration, Sacred Worth, Shared Freedom, urges religious leaders and communities to defend LGBTQ+ dignity, human rights, and democratic freedoms.

Thinking with Plants and Fungi brings together leading voices from science, the humanities, and the arts to explore how vegetal and fungal life challenge dominant models of consciousness, community, a...

Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura d...

Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura d...

Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura d...

After twenty years in higher education, I know the university will protect itself over its people. Rather than explain the value of the university, we have to refuse the language of the market and def...

As scholars who have studied the Bible for decades, we believe transgender people—just like all people—are our sacred, precious, divinely cherished neighbors.

(RNS) — ‘As AI amplifies and compounds religious bias at scale, more users may misunderstand the contribution faith and belief can make to moral and ethical AI grounding,’ said Elder Gerrit W. Gong, o...

Anthea Butler: Pope Leo putting slavery and emergent AI technology together is not strange at all.

"Magnifica Humanitas" tackles the social, economic and political challenges associated with artificial intelligence.

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.