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Rebel constables help tenants stay in their homes during COVID
On a warm November afternoon, Kristen Randall, a red-haired woman in a blue button-down shirt, knocked at the door of a rundown apartment in Tucson’s East Midtown neighborhood....
Valpo drops ‘Crusaders’ team name
Valparaiso University announced on August 10 that it has adopted the Beacons as its new team name, replacing the Crusaders, a term school officials dropped this year after saying it had been embrac...
Jackie Robinson’s Methodist faith
Besieged by death threats, racial abuse, and physical danger, somehow Jackie Robinson never publicly lost his composure during the 1947 Major League Baseball season, when he integrated the league.<...
Christian ethicist Donald W. Shriver Jr. dies at 93
Donald W. Shriver Jr., an acclaimed Christian ethicist and Presbyterian minister who wrote widely about the need for White Americans to face and repent of their racist past, died July 28 at 93....
Influential Orthodox leader Leonid Kishkovsky dies at 78
Leonid Kishkovsky, who came to the United States as a childhood refugee from war-torn Poland and later became a leader in cross-church cooperation and the first Eastern Orthodox president of the Na...
Beverly Shamana, pioneering Methodist bishop, dies at 81
Beverly Shamana, the second Black woman to become a bishop in the United Methodist Church, died August 1....
AME Church returns to Cuba after 51 years
After more than half a century, the African Methodist Episcopal Church has reestablished a presence in Cuba....
Needing a warrior God (Ephesians 6:10-20)
The armor of God and the violence of the Bible
A father and his dying daughter came to see me. They wanted different things.
Sometimes truth is better than comfort.
Fighting for the humanities at church-related colleges
“What good is a Methodist college that doesn't have religion professors?” asks one student.
Willimon and Hauerwas’s out-of-season words on pastoral care
Pastors coping with the pandemic need our encouragement, not our carping.
Pastoral care is part of Christian formation
A response to Will Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas
From Dante to Tina Fey, a romp through history with Jesus’ Beatitudes
Blessed are those who read this wise and lovely book.
My hospice nurse’s horse
The mare pulled the meniscus in her knee. This left my nurse with a tough choice.
September 12, Ordinary 24B (Mark 8:27–38)
The cross we choose to bear reveals who we think Jesus is.
This Seattle church’s stained-glass Jesus was far too White
So a local artist found a creative way to cover him up.
A novel about baseball, wealth, and human frailty
Christopher Beha’s characters find themselves in pits, and the way out is not remotely clear.
Afghan women fear “dark days” amid Taliban sweep
It was early evening, and Zahra, her mother, and three sisters were on their way to dinner at another sister’s home when they ...
How will history judge Latin American churches’ COVID response?
Likely with both praise and blame.
When goodness is also lovely
The New Testament has two words for “good.” Knowing the difference between them can help us build a better society.