A couple of weeks ago, my church joined many from the Christian tradition and celebrated Trinity Sunday. Since then, I have been thinking about what we mean when we say that every person is “made in ...

Gays are created in the image of God. So are liberals. The rich. The undocumented. Unbelievers. Everyone, even, and most importantly, the people with whom you do not agree. That’s the message of the ...

God created mankind (both male and females) in His image, not in the image of animals; in the image of God not gorillas. Genesis 1 informs us that He, God, created creatures of the air and waters, ...

The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, was this last weekend. This year, I felt its cleansing power palpably. My reacquaintance with the power of Yom Kippur came decades ago. I see it as part of the ...

A religion scholar’s assumptions about historical progress distort the legacy of a central Christian doctrine. Few ideas have changed the world as profoundly as the doctrine that all human beings who ...

Elizabeth Johnson has spent her entire life — or at least her decadeslong theological career — trying to get people to think differently about God, beyond the patriarchal image of an authoritarian old ...