There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment
Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of evil.
Books
What White Christians did to Black Charlotte
Re-enchanting reading
A fictional reservation that feels real
Wreckage and euphoria
In This Issue
November 24, Reign of Christ B (John 18:33–37)
November 17, Ordinary 33B Mark 13:1-8
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Coming of age with girl detectives
There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment
A time to endure
Voices
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.
Heidi Neumark
Conspiracies of goodness
When I fear a dystopian future, I hold on to stories of everyday resistance.