Arts & Culture
In praise of church musicians
Great leaders of congregational song attend to the new community formed every time a church gathers.
A holy fool with chocolate
Understanding Wonka in light of the gospel’s message of radical, unconfined love
Cat and mouse and me
My cat, who’s kept inside all day, got bored, somehow slipped into my attached garage, cornered and caught a little mouse, and gored ...
William Guthrie’s weird Christianity
The rector of St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery brought the church into relationship with the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1920s.
The Bright Word
Some words, some narratives like birds with bright wing feathers, swoop into the mind, provocative, daring....
A refugee’s lonely heart
Beth Nguyen’s second memoir is a deep dive into the void of a mother’s absence and the silence surrounding it.
A Woman of Salt Near the Dead Sea
I have seen the pillar of salt, and it remains to this day. —Flavius Josephus, first century CE...