Spring 2025 | Introduction and Cover Photo

Is American Christianity losing its salt and light? Warning signs are flashing left and right: a public spirit of cruelty, an out-of-touch institutional ethos, the great harm of clergy abuses. Reflections invited YDS-related scholars and ministers to speak to the moment and declare their own reasons for Christian faith. The stakes are high. These writers make contemporary sense of Jesus’ message, finding moral clarity and fire, rejecting disillusion or nostalgia. “God’s love has the first and the final word,” writes Shannon Craigo-Snell ‘95 M.Div., ‘02 Ph.D., “and we are invited to be part of it in our time and place.”
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