The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.
There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment
A time to endure
Divine silence
Books
What if your plants could hear you?
What White Christians did to Black Charlotte
Re-enchanting reading
A fictional reservation that feels real
In This Issue
Keep swinging for the fences
What if your plants could hear you?
Coming of age with girl detectives
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Barbara Holmes taught us to see our cosmic ties
Audacious visions (Revelation 1:4b-8)
Keep swinging for the fences
What if your plants could hear you?
Voices
Jonathan Tran
Keep swinging for the fences
My decades of church life have been full of the stuff one might expect from a place that promises God and only sometimes delivers.
Isaac S. Villegas
Divine silence
A Quaker colleague taught me how stillness exercises agency, how it acts upon worshipers.
Debie Thomas
Ancestral blessings
I attended a talk by a pastor who begins services by asking, “Who do you bring into worship with you?”
Brian Bantum
Stretched between life’s verses
The future is scary: we simply don’t know, and it flies toward us anyway.
Yolanda Pierce
Lessons from the land of lake effect snow
Life can be as unpredictable as the weather in upstate New York. But God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Samuel Wells
Mourning prayer
The church’s old cork board reminded me that our heartbroken cries go directly to God.
Politics
The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
A time to endure
Jesus is Lord. No political leader is.
