Just the Time for Story-telling: George MacDonald and a Christ-wise Imagination

Interview

Our Living Gospel: A Saintly Conversation with Robert Ellsberg

Robert Ellsberg is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Orbis Books. He has written numerous books on saints, including All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Times, Blessed Among All Women, The Saints' Guide to Happiness, Modern Spiritual Masters, and Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses, which is based on his daily entries for Give Us This Day. A former managing editor of The Catholic Worker, he has written extensively about the life and legacy of Dorothy Day…

Discernment: Can We Do it Better?

"Discernment is the bridge between knowledge and wisdom. It is the ability…

Communal Reflection: Discerning the Barmen Declaration’s Role Today

An interview with Craig Wong, Michael Barram, and Rebecca Hernandez…

Laughter, Prayer, and Community: Ben Patterson’s Guide to Faith

An interview with Ben Patterson…

Features

The Barmen Declaration: An Appeal to the Evangelical Congregations and Christians in Germany, 1934

A translation of the original Barmen Theological Declaration…

Bearing Christian Witness: Karl Barth and the Barmen Declaration

by John R. Franke
To say that Karl Barth opposed Hitler, along with other Christians in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, might appear to be stating the obvious.…

New College Berkeley’s Barmen Retreat: Practicing Faithfulness in Community

by Ryan Pemberton
Hosted by Dr. Craig Wong, Executive Director of New College Berkeley, we heard several presentations over the course of our three days together: “History and a Close Reading…

The Barmen Declaration and the Roots of Antisemitism in the German Protestant Church

by Ed Aust
On a cool May afternoon in Barmen, Germany, in 1934, Swiss theologian Karl Barth sat alone at a wood table revising the first draft of a Christian statement…

Remembering Susan Fetcho

by Rev. Jim Friedrich, Susan S. Phillips, Raymond Yee, and Adria Peterson…

The Art of Worship: Breaking Our Tools to Receive God’s Gifts

by David and Susan Fetcho
Is art a hammer or a mirror? Does it shape culture, reflect it, or a little of both?…

Food for Risen Bodies: the Eschatology of Sculpture

by Ben Egerton
“It always starts with a body,” the world-weary, seen-it-all detective mutters, “then come the questions.”…

Living with Eyes Open: Remembering Ted Lewis

by Ed Aust
I lost a dear friend recently. I’m still reeling from the news that Ted Lewis, a leader in restorative justice and a regular contributor to Radix, died on…

Poetry

Four Poems by Mischa Willett

…

Columns

Columns/On Gospel Faithfulness

Barmen as Third Space

by Dr. Craig Wong…

Columns

To the People in the Pulpits

by Marilyn McEntyre…

Columns

Bethel Before Barmen

by Corey Parish…

Columns

St. Edith Stein: Doctor of Empathy

by Bret van den Brink…

Review

Lacunae: New Poems by Scott Cairns

by Jeffrey Allen Mays…

Fiction

Granny Squares

By Cathy Warner…

Visually Sacred

David William Brown: Architecture, Worship, and Imagination

David taught for fourteen years at Oxford and for seventeen at Durham before becoming Professor of Theology, Aesthetics & Culture at the University of St. Andrews in 2007. In recent years he has focused on interactions between theology and the arts and indeed culture more generally. This resulted in…

Christina Maranci: Armenian Religious Architecture

Christina is the author of four books and over 100 articles and essays on medieval Armenian art and architecture, including most recently, "The Art of Armenia." Her 2015 monograph, "Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia" won the Karen Gould Prize for Art History from the Medieval Academy…

Saurav Mohapatra: Theology and Comics

Saurav is a writer and filmmaker primarily known for his work on the crime-noir graphic novel Mumbai Confidential and his collaboration with Deepak Chopra for the comic book series Deepak Chopra Presents India Authentic. He is also the author of the essay “Echoes Of Eternity” for the Graven Images anthology…

Petra Carlsson-Redell: Aesthetics and Radical Theology

Petra is professor of systematic theology and head of the Center for Theology, Ecology, and Culture at Stockholm School of Theology. She does research in the borderland of theology, art, performance, and environmental activism. She is co-founder of a surrealist and theology collective called The International Congress for…

Robert Covolo: Theology and Fashion

Robert is a cultural theologian residing in Los Angeles. He currently serves as an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, and as a Tutor at the Honors College, Azusa Pacific University. He directs the Center for Pastoral Residents, Christ Church Sierra Madre, and works…

Ali Hussain: The Arts Through Sufism and Christian Mysticism

Ali Hussain is a musician and poet. He has a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan, Department of Middle East Studies. His research focuses on the image of Jesus in the writings of Muslim polymath Muhyiddin Ibn Al-Arabi and later Muslim scholars. His other research…

Suggestions

Interview

Features

Poetry

Columns

Review

Fiction

Visually Sacred