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Living with chronic pain without asking why
When I’m simply present to my own pain, I learn to be present to others’ pain, too.
Episode 85: Love, Actually
Matt and Adam are joined by pastor Becca Messman to sort through the strange Christmas message of Love, Actually.
What Native American political systems can teach us about power and truth telling
My Choctaw ancestors understood the cost of lies.
Piranesi is the best kind of fantasy novel
Susanna Clarke weaves magic into her readers’ lives.
The Good Lord Bird portrays abolitionist John Brown as a wild prophet
The miniseries is full of big ideas about freedom and self-determination.
January 10, Baptism B (Mark 1:4–11)
Readers of Mark’s Gospel know that a divine fragmentation could happen at any time.
It’s time to end the cash bail system
You don’t get people to show up in court by threatening to take away money they never had.
Robert P. Jones says it’s past time to reckon with Christianity’s role in White supremacy
White Too Long envisions the hope that could follow recognition and repentance.
Supreme Court rejects attendance caps for houses of worship
On November 26, as coronavirus cases surged again nationwide, the Supreme Court barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hi...
Progressive group launches new Methodist denomination
A group of progressive United Methodists and other Christians have launched a new denomination named the Liberation Methodist Connexion, or LMX....
Historic Middle Collegiate Church destroyed in fire
An early morning fire in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood has destroyed the 128-year-old building of Middle Collegiate Church, one of the oldest congregations in the city....
After getting out the vote, Black church leaders look ahead
On the last Sunday of October, Karl Anderson helped arrange a Souls to the Polls event on a blocked-off street in downtown Gainesville, Florida, to encourage people to vote early....
Head of Serbian Orthodox Church dies of COVID-19
Patriarch Irinej, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, died of COVID-19 on November 20 at the age of 90....
Groundbreaking Lutheran educator Cheryl Stewart Pero dies at 69
Cheryl Stewart Pero, one of the first Black Lutheran women to be ordained in the United States, died on October 28 after a short illness and hospitalization. She was 69....
Indigenous spiritual leader Eddie Benton-Banai dies at 89
Eddie Benton-Banai, who helped found the American Indian Movement, partly in response to alleged police brutality against Indigenous people, died on November 30. He was 89....
The beautiful stillness of the Christ child
As the rotating nativity spun, I kept watching Jesus.
Immigration law and the politics of disgust
How Pharaoh treated the Hebrews and how the US has treated my people
Seeing Black people in scripture
Esau McCaulley’s book reclaims what the Black church has always known.