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Four people, one church
Cara Wall writes beautifully about something novelists rarely address: a mainline Protestant congregation.
Changing together (Luke 12:49-56; Jeremiah 23:23-29)
What questions arise if we take Jesus' warning literally?
Accompanying immigrants as they negotiate an unjust system
"It’s easy to think of the border as some remote, far-off place, but the truth is that there are detention centers in nearly every state."
Howard Thurman’s contemplative nonviolence
The pastor and mentor to Martin Luther King formed a vision of resistance around prayer, not politics.
September 8, Ordinary 23C (Luke 14:25-33)
Jesus isn’t known for being on the winning side. His constant mantra is come and die.
A wedding reception that felt like Cana
We drank wine, danced with abandon, and caught a glimpse of grace.
Suicides in the US are rising. How can the church respond?
Helping people feel connected to one another is the holy work of any community, including congregations.
Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir’s life tells the story of Lebanon
He was a patriarch in the Maronite Church, a diplomatic interfaith leader, and a local power broker.
This Sunday, pray for the reunification of Korea
National Liberation Day of Korea spurs us to celebrate the past and work for a united future.
Toni Morrison and the holiness of the living, breathing flesh
(RNS) — Amid the obituaries and tributes for novelist Toni Morrison, who died this week at age 88; of all the shared emails, texts and calls with friends and present and former students, as I sat w...
Discovering sabbath in my mother’s hospice room
She was a staunch observer of sabbath. It took her death for me to appreciate why.
Plans for brain implants blur lines between humans and machines
It sounds far-fetched: with a computer chip implanted in their brain, humans could boost their intelligence with instant access to the Internet, write articles like this one by thinking rather than...
Nuns and Nones helps millennials find surprise soul mates
The Dominican sisters sat in silence, eyes closed, palms upturned, couches and chairs pushed together into a circle in the room at the Dominican Center at Marywood in Grand Rapids, Michigan....
Too busy for church? Churches offer some online remedies
Dallas residents Lincoln and Natalie Redmon spent two years bouncing from church to church. After marrying and moving to the city, they just couldn’t find the right fit....
Faith groups push back against State Department’s new Commission on Unalienable Rights
A coalition of 430 human rights, civil rights, foreign policy, and faith organizations, leaders, and scholars has submitted a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to dismantle his d...
Trump reportedly considering stopping all refugee admissions
On July 18, Politico reported that Trump administration officials are mulling the option of setting the annual ceiling for refugee admissions to zero....
Refugee cuts affect persecuted Christians
Just weeks into President Trump’s first term, he was asked whether he would make the plight of Christians facing religious persecution abroad a priority of his administration. “Yes,” Trump said....
W. A. Visser ’t Hooft’s confrontation with nationalist idolatry among Christians
The Dutch ecumenist believed the church can—and must—challenge hateful ideologies.
The conversation about faith and sex that The Bachelorette sparked
And that conversation’s inevitable limits