Karissa Sovdi’s Surviving Christianity Unmarried is a rare book on singleness that left me feeling genuinely seen. At first I dreaded another Christian book on singlehood: well-meaning clichés and shallow encouragements that feel galaxies away from the lived experience of being single in the church. Sovdi’s uniquely invitational work disarmed my hesitation. Her writing is…
Artist Jennie Vegt tries her best not to come into a patient’s room with an agenda. Her first priority is to make patients feel seen and to get to know their creative interests. Her goal is simple: “Let’s bring arts experiences to the bedside.” Since 2021, Vegt has been an artist-in-residence through the Artists on…
The first church I pastored, in inner-city Chicago, just moved its worship services online because the Mexican congregants fear Sunday morning ICE raids. Signs of tough times are all around. Two recent books don’t just counsel against despair, but suggest ways to move forward while deeply rooting ourselves in our faith. Towards resistance Hannah Reichel…
Sometimes the world forgets to breathe, / so we quietly breathe for her; / we move the leaf blocking the light / from a tiny sapling of fir; / we hush as movements in the trees / cause rustling and the grass to stir; / allow fauna to roam in peace, / their peaceful footsteps soft and sure.
The simple beauty of the Shakers’ carefully-crafted buildings and furniture has left its mark on American design. But who founded this movement, one that included upwards of 6,000 followers at its height in the 1840s? This question compelled director Mona Fastvold to develop a biopic billed as a musical, The Testament of Ann Lee. The…
Hollywood seldom portrays faith well. On one hand are glossy depictions of near-perfect characters who prosper if they pray hard, look right and win enough converts. On the other hand, Christianity is displayed as destructive and colonial. What happens to the stories in the middle, the ones that expose the harm of the church while showing…
A few years ago, Christian nationalism was not well known, but now headlines regularly remind us of its centrality to the MAGA agenda. Christian nationalism insists that Christian precepts ought to be law and enforced by the state. Advocates believe that the Founding Fathers intended to establish the United States as a democracy whose ultimate…
When I visited Palestine and Israel in December with a group of Anglican clergy from the Diocese of Toronto, we felt as though we were immersed in the biblical story. Omar Haramy, a Palestinian Christian and the Executive Director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, took us on a walk through the Old City…
Harry van Dyke’s book was triggered by a conference commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Kuyper’s 1898 Princeton Stone Lectures on Calvinism. Centenary speakers presented Kuyper as unprecedented. In The Legacy of Abraham Kuyper, Van Dyke considers key individuals who influenced Kuyper and as many leaders whom Kuyper influenced. Significant influencers The book’s first part discusses…
Young Wendell and Mama walk downtown, each carrying a card. On the way, they pass Mr. David, who is sound asleep on a wooden bench. Wendell loves to look at all the doors they pass – wooden doors, glass doors, metal doors, doors that are at the top of stairs and doors that are at…
enough—despite our regrets / and longings—mound, swept together / like dead mayflies, brittle / with sorrow nearly / unspeakable. Where is solace / meant to settle, like dew? / A life shatters, its hunger / for wholeness hopefully / drifting toward Mystery,
Jonathan Anderson is the Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts at Regent College in Vancouver. Anderson is trained as an artist, art critic and theologian. In his recent book, The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art (2025), Anderson addresses a strange phenomenon: even though religion was present in modern art,…
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