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Phoning home

God, like an attuned parent, hears not just the words we say but also the hidden parts of our hearts.

by Yolanda Pierce

Features

OncoMouse and me

A genetically engineered animal helped me rethink the imago Dei. It might also save my life.

by Ann Milliken Pederson

Features

A church politics of nondomination

Liberal Anglicans and Methodists often face a tension between LGBTQ inclusion and anti-colonialism. But we don’t have to choose.

by Ross Kane

First Words

Self-evident truths?

What may have been obvious to Thomas Jefferson was probably not obvious to those he enslaved.

by Peter W. Marty

From the Editors

Climate catastrophe is here

Swaths of US land are becoming uninsurable, even uninhabitable.

Books

How roads hurt animals

Ben Goldfarb’s book on road ecology has expanded my understanding of what makes a livable city—and world.

by Jason Duba

The souls of Jamel Brinkley’s stories

Brinkley has a storyteller’s gift for revealing characters and the connections between them.

by Lawrence Wood

Understanding Czesław Miłosz

Eva Hoffman, a fellow exile from Poland, writes about the Nobel-winning author like no one else could.

by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner

Jerry Falwell’s toxic legacy

Keri Ladner digs into the Moral Majority founder’s archives to show how his fantastical interpretations of world politics seeded the ground for QAnon.

by David P. Gushee

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In the Lectionary

July 21, Ordinary 16B (Mark 6:30–34, 53–56)

An exhausted Jesus responds to the crowd with compassion. I think that’s a miracle.

by Joanna Harader

Voices

Phoning home

God, like an attuned parent, hears not just the words we say but also the hidden parts of our hearts.

by Yolanda Pierce

Books

How roads hurt animals

Ben Goldfarb’s book on road ecology has expanded my understanding of what makes a livable city—and world.

by Jason Duba

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In the Lectionary

July 21, Ordinary 16B (Mark 6:30–34, 53–56)

An exhausted Jesus responds to the crowd with compassion. I think that’s a miracle.

by Joanna Harader

News

Iranian American wrestling champion leads effort to develop singlet for conservative Muslim women

by Daoud Kuttab

Sunday’s Coming

Grace and peace (Ephesians 1:3-14)

It’s hard to greet people with a blessing without sounding ostentatiously pious.

by Marilyn McEntyre

Voices

Phoning home

God, like an attuned parent, hears not just the words we say but also the hidden parts of our hearts.

by Yolanda Pierce

Voices

Yolanda Pierce

Phoning home

God, like an attuned parent, hears not just the words we say but also the hidden parts of our hearts.

Philip Jenkins

Praying the hours with W. H. Auden

The poet’s Horae Canonicae sequence is an underappreciated spiritual classic.

Alejandra Oliva

Feeling God in a modernist cathedral-in-progress

While other churches have filled me with wonder, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia brought tears to my eyes.

Samuel Wells

What does it mean to be an inclusive church?

Being a community means welcoming those with diverse views, not cocooning oneself with like-minded people.

Jonathan Tran

What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean?

Could it really be all the different things people say it is?

Rachel Mann

Facing a world on fire

The contemplative life is about getting closer to reality, not retreating from it.

Politics

Books

How roads hurt animals

Ben Goldfarb’s book on road ecology has expanded my understanding of what makes a livable city—and world.

by Jason Duba

Features

A church politics of nondomination

Liberal Anglicans and Methodists often face a tension between LGBTQ inclusion and anti-colonialism. But we don’t have to choose.

by Ross Kane

First Words

Self-evident truths?

What may have been obvious to Thomas Jefferson was probably not obvious to those he enslaved.

by Peter W. Marty

Books

Jerry Falwell’s toxic legacy

Keri Ladner digs into the Moral Majority founder’s archives to show how his fantastical interpretations of world politics seeded the ground for QAnon.

by David P. Gushee

Books

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