In one of the least likely places I ever expected to see it, I saw healthy emotions on display after a recent NFL game. The Los Angeles Rams had just prevailed over their NFC West division rivals, the Seattle Seahawks, and the players and coaches were greeting each other on the field after the game. One of the Seahawks players, Cooper Kupp, had become a standout wide receiver for the Rams in the years after he joined them in 2014. He was a joy to watch, not only because of hi

When I can manage it, I write here about religion and culture — how religious life shapes us, how it evolves, and how it shows up in our personal and collective journeys. Thinking and hopefully writing about these things animates me, gives me a chance to breathe easier, and, in small, incremental ways, helps me imagine and perhaps create a bigger, more inclusive world. I don’t usually write about my work in book publishing here, even though that’s what occupies most of my pro

I will often write or speak about how our spiritual DNA is radically shaped and intricately constructed by the fact that we live with an ongoing lack of cultural cohesion, whether at the level of the whole or in smaller clusters. Most of us lost so many of our traditions, idiomatic language, and identities when our various ancestors came to live in the “new world.” So much of it vanished for so many, especially for those who were violently displaced. Genetically speaking, we

If you grew up evangelical, you’ve experienced evangelicalitis —that constant need to keep imposing a right, correct, “biblical”...

Almost every day, I feel a sense of loss in response to the ubiquity of religion in the US. Almost every day, I wish people would better...

Will Herberg's Protestant—Catholic—Jew A Personal Essay on America's "Faith in Faith," with Thanks to Will Herberg In my twenties, I...