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Isolated for the holidays? You should feast anyway.
Even during a pandemic, feasting is central to Christian worship.
A religious studies thriller about Karen King’s “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”
Ariel Sabar’s nonfiction book contains more twists and turns than a car chase.
Magical realism and the word of the Lord (Advent 2B; Isaiah 40:1-11)
Mysterious truth in fiction and in reality
I’ve been a professor for 40 years, but teaching Greek to an eight-year-old may be my crowning achievement
It started with a FaceTime call with my grandson.
The words I turn to in times of grief and distress
“If it can’t be happy, make it beautiful.”
Mary’s song reveals her politics of mercy
I think Jesus learned his prophetic ministry from his mother.
Would we recognize a modern-day messiah?
Sean Gandert’s novel asks us to decide if a man is a saint or a sham.
Looking to Advent as we grieve our COVID-19 dead
Lament and longing can be companions.
December 24/25, Nativity (Isaiah 9:2-7; John 1:1-14)
The prophetic power of a candle in the window
There is no single refugee resettlement story
Jessica Goudeau’s new book embeds the memoirs of two very different women in a primer on what it means to seek refuge in America.
The making of the QAnon conspiracy cult
Over the past year, awareness of the far-right collection of baseless conspiracy theories known as QAnon has grown dramatically in the United States....
Popular Muslim prayer app ends relationship with firm selling data to US military
The popular Islamic lifestyle app Muslim Pro, which has nearly 150 million downloads around the world, says it will stop selling its users’ location data to a tech firm that resells that informatio...
How a Baptist educator’s simple plan gave rise to health insurance
In 1929, Baylor Hospital in Dallas had a problem: it was weeks away from insolvency. Teachers in Dallas also had a problem: they couldn’t afford to take time off when they got sick....
Buddhist hospice care offers alternative to Western ideas of death
In the past decade, a Buddhist end-of-life movement has sprung up in non-Buddhist countries, testifying to a need for spiritual accompaniment at the end of life that is felt not only by an aging ge...
Seniors form COVID-19 pods to ward off isolation this winter
For a month, Richard Besdine and his wife discussed whether to see family and friends indoors this fall and winter....
Influential book publisher William Eerdmans Jr. dies at 97
William Eerdmans Jr., who led the independent religious publishing house Wm. B. Eerdmans for more than 50 years, died on November 13 at age 97....
Methodist civil rights leader William Bobby McClain dies at 82
William Bobby McClain, a longtime leader in the United Methodist Church and the civil rights movement, died November 18 at age 82....
Adam Taylor succeeds Jim Wallis at Sojourners
Adam Taylor has been named the new president of Sojourners, the national Christian social justice advocacy organization founded and led by Jim Wallis since the 1970s....