Dispatch
Despite a widely-condemned resolution on transgender identity, the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting showed small glimmers of change.
Ruth Graham is a contributing writer for the Boston Globe's Ideas section; her work has also appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
New Edition
A ten-year-old devotional written in the voice of God suddenly became a commercial juggernaut. Now, its publisher is trying to reconcile its New Age origins with evangelical orthodoxy.