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June 30, Ordinary 13B (2 Samuel 1:1, 17–27)
Maybe the Song of the Bow is an Iron Age propaganda drop. Or maybe it’s just a song.
Episcopal Church grapples with 'transformative role' in Native American residential schools
For most Native American children in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, education was neither a right nor a privilege....
Babes revives the adult comedy
It recalls the raunchy movies of the early 2000s—even as it offers a fresh vision of what it means to grow up.
Our very human pastors (2 Corinthians 6:1-13)
Paul comes to the Corinthians as he is and ministers among them from God’s grace dwelling in his distinct and dented life.
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.
Study: Despite highest rates of religious disaffiliation, East Asia remains spiritually vibrant
In East Asia, people are leaving their religion at rates that are among the highest in the world, according to a survey released June 17 by Pew Research Center....
Puerto Rico as both object and subject of mission
José David Rodríguez provides a decolonial history of Lutheranism in the world’s oldest colony.
Hair like wool
Both Daniel and Revelation compare God’s hair to wool. White enslavers used to say the same thing about hair like mine.
What happened to US politics?
John Ganz explores the gritty political and cultural trends that erupted in the early 1990s and set the stage for the present.
Leading and lamenting with Nehemiah
Brenda Salter McNeil draws on her community organizing experience to find fresh lessons from the biblical rebuilder.
Historic all-sign-language movie 'Jesus: A Deaf Missions Film' comes to theaters
Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama Jesus of Nazareth—but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue....
Genius and virtue
Wildcat is less a biopic than a luminous exploration of the tension in Flannery O’Connor’s artistic and spiritual life.
June 23, Ordinary 12B (1 Samuel 17:(1a, 4–11, 19–23), 32–49)
When David steps out to challenge Goliath, he shifts from the acted upon to the actor.
This particular soil (Mark 4:26-34)
Seeds do not grow without soil, and soil is a factor of place.
Southern Baptists don’t get votes to add ‘only men’ pastors language to constitution
Southern Baptists failed to adopt a change in their constitution that would explicitly state that “only men” can be “any kind of pastor” in affiliated churches....
Consciousness all the way down
If consciousness is universal and the universe is fine-tuned for life, Philip Goff argues, then there must be a cosmic purpose.
What is the rainbow in Genesis a reminder of?
This year during Pride month, God seems to have a lot of rainbow defenders online. But they aren’t getting the Bible story quite right.
Vatican convenes astrophysicists to discuss black holes, quantum theory
Renowned physicists, including two Nobel Prize winners, will gather at the Vatican Observatory near Rome next week to ponder the unresolved mysteries of the cosmos and to honor the legacy of George...
James Lawson, pastor and nonviolent activist, dies at 95
James M. Lawson Jr., who made it his life’s work to create a nonviolent nation, died June 9 at age 95....
What does ‘Christian nationalism’ even mean?
Could it really be all the different things people say it is?