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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.
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?
Don’t tell my Pentecostal mom, but I pray the Hail Mary
My Grandma Violet was the black sheep of our family. I think of her when I pray.
The White Iowans and Latino and African migrants of the meatpacking industry
Kristy Nabhan-Warren’s ethnographic study complicates familiar views of the Corn Belt.
God’s womb of compassion (Psalm 25:1-10; Luke 21:25-36)
Advent must respond in some consequential way to the widening uncertainty of the living of our days.
The Rittenhouse verdict and the twisting of natural law
If a protest for equal rights is a threatening provocation, then answering that threat with violence is merely self-defense.
What preachers have said in times of national crisis
Melissa Matthes well understands both the political and the religious power of mourning.