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Rejoice? Don’t worry? (Philippians 4:4-7)
It’s hard to take Paul’s admonition seriously these days.
January 6, Epiphany (Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12)
Theology is not popularly understood to be a landscape where dreams are welcome.
Reckoning with our messiah complexes
The vulnerability of the newborn Christ challenges our inclination to play God.
Stephen Sondheim’s expressions of yearning
My spirituality was shaped by this secular artist’s powerful spiritual questions.
The creative resistance of Native American Christian art
The Christian Thunderbird is once more taking flight.
An American teenager in Slovakia
How a year overseas unraveled and remade Sarah Hinlicky Wilson’s identity
Episode 12: The fierce call of love | A conversation with Jacqui Lewis
"Is there a loving way to call people in, not out?"
The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again
So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them?
December 26, Christmas 1 (Colossians 3:12-17; Luke 2:41-52)
Why am I so skeptical about sitting and learning at the feet of others?
Maybe it’s time for me to let go of Thomas Merton
Who do I pay attention to who may be prophetically controversial today?
15 London children died in a World War II attack
Francis Spufford’s novel imagines the lives they might otherwise have led.
’Tis the season for royal Christmas movies
What exactly is it about the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that says “tiara romance”?
God’s infrastructure plan (Luke 3:1-6)
Advent is also about our own coming and going, the ways we embody the reconstructive ways of the Lord.
COVID classroom, 2020
Just after eight on a warm October morning,
under a white canopy, the sun comes smoking
through the redwoods into the eyes and paisley
mask of a young woman front-and-center....
Climate change’s threat to Christianity
Faith is growing in the tropics. So are the temperatures and the tides.
The complicated Lindbergh
It’s hard to strike the right balance in a biography of the heroic aviator and antisemitic activist. Christopher Gehrz succeeds brilliantly.
Imagining a new political economy with Miriam of Nazareth
Abortion is about real lives enmeshed in the realities of home and work and wages and debt.
American democracy can’t survive without federal election reform
The party in Trump’s thrall is going after the very notion of fair elections. Yet Congress has failed to act.
December 24/25, Nativity (Isaiah 52:7-10; John 1:1-14)
What is the story within the story that we need to hear anew?