Topics
Each topic gathers articles on what Scripture says, what the church has taught, and what the mainline churches teach today. Every article is also listed in the library.
God
Who God is, whether God exists, and what the Bible means when it says that God is love, drawn from Scripture, the creeds, and teachers of the church East and West, from Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine to Julian of Norwich.
Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth: a Jewish teacher from Galilee, crucified under Pontius Pilate, whom the church proclaims as risen Lord and confesses in the Nicene Creed as God made flesh.
The Bible
Who wrote the Bible, how Christians have read it for two thousand years, and how the mainline churches read its hardest passages with the help of history and the rule of love.
Salvation, heaven, and hell
Sin, grace, forgiveness, death, and the life to come, from Scripture and from the long Christian hope, held by teachers from Gregory of Nyssa to C. S. Lewis, that God's love has the last word.
Sexuality, marriage, and gender
Sex, marriage, divorce, gender, and LGBTQ+ Christians, from Scripture and from the teaching of the Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Episcopal churches that marry same-sex couples and ordain women.
Church and sacraments
Baptism, Holy Communion, the creeds, and the churches themselves: what Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Episcopalians teach, and how they differ from Catholic, Orthodox, and evangelical Christians.
Justice
What the Law, the prophets, and Jesus teach about immigrants, the poor, war, and race, and how the mainline churches have acted on the command to love your neighbor as yourself.
Everyday life
Tattoos, alcohol, swearing, gambling, Halloween, and the other ordinary choices of daily life, read in the light of Christian freedom and the love of neighbor.
Suffering, doubt, and mental health
Suffering, doubt, grief, anxiety, and depression, with the honesty of the Psalms and Job and the care the church owes to anyone who is hurting.
Prayer and the Christian year
How to pray, how to forgive, and how the church keeps time through Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost.
Bible verses in context
What the most-quoted Bible verses meant to their first readers and what they mean for Christians today.