Creative Commons/Sandro Botticelli “My starting point for thinking about divine reality is Augustine’s: anything that one understands is not God,” Dorrien writes. Saint Augustine in His Study by Sandro Botticelli. More

Ana Levy-Lyons’s new book on the politics of the Ten Commandments adds another dimension to the creative thinking about God and politics that has appeared in her writings in Tikkun and in the writing of other creative theologians we have published in our pages. More

Olivia Wise ( oliviawisestudio.com ) “Ezekiel’s vision split open my own imagination,” the author writes. “I think of the delight I take in my own chair . . . the way wheels set me free and open up my spirit.” Whirlwheel by Olivia Wise. More

Owen Smith, San Francisco Arts Commission, 2010 ( owensmithart.com ) “Think of American history as a suspension bridge that rests on . . . three great long-term crises,” Zaretsky writes, identifying slavery, industry, and finance as the sources of crisis. Building the Iron Horse by Owen Smith. More

Laura Beckman ( laurabeckman.com ) Marx describes religion as the imaginary flowers adorning the chain that holds us captive and envisions a day when we “shake off the chain and pluck the living flower.” Is this framing as anti-religious as some seem to think? One could argue that the flowers More

that deserve new ways of thinking.” Here, a gay couple celebrates their fifty-four years of partnership at a pride parade in New York City. More