After three years of pandemic, the image of God needed for church leadership now is not Jesus the senior pastor but Jesus the outreach pastor, who visits the sick, goes to the prisons, runs the food pantry, and ministers to people beyond earshot of the pulpit.

When we begin to understand how richly varied our divine representations are—and when we abandon the claim that a particular controlling image of God is the only one—then we are all the more likely to revere the one and only God who dwells within all our representations and remains beyond them at once.

Christians in Africa pray—a lot. The spirited, sometimes paradoxical intersection of African church and society shows the power of vivid belief in a God who is both transcendent and immanent.

Shabbat is a weekly renewal of a partnership with God, a reminder of humanity’s powerful capacity to create peace with God and our neighbors.

The universe is divinely structured so that the good is more fundamental to it than the evil in it—and the two things we so deeply want, happiness and goodness, go together.

Turbulence in the Christian churches of North America and Western Europe is a potential gift to the world, a chance to reconsider and expand our understanding of how humanity encounters the Divine.

Seeking the living God is a matter of shedding older and despotic images of the divine and arriving at the experience of the Spirit as a force of belonging, liberation, and compassion for all creation.

Fateful consequences flow from the divine images we choose to honor or refuse—political consequences, ethical ramifications, grace-filled or lethal outcomes.