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Episode 48: Midnight Special (LIVE at Mo Ranch)
Matt and Adam take the show on the road and discuss Jeff Nichols's Midnight Special at Mo Ranch in Texas.
New Testament and preaching scholar Gail O’Day dies at age 63
O’Day was known for her integrity in biblical interpretation.
October 28, Ordinary 30B (Mark 10:46-52)
Why does the crowd demand that Bartimaeus be silent?
BlacKkKlansman, Sorry to Bother You, and the “white voice”
If whiteness is a fiction, it's one that does a lot of damage.
Vatican and China make deal on bishops
The development comes nearly seven decades after the Holy See and Beijing severed official relations.
The ghosts and the not-yet-dead
Jesmyn Ward’s novel is a descent into hell on earth. I couldn't put it down.
Giving thanks in a world of horrors
During the groaning evil of the Thirty Years War, a pastor wrote the hymn “Now thank we all our God.”
There's a better way than give and take
What does it mean to own something, like a winter coat?
The mysticism of greatness (Mark 9:30-37)
Mystics experience the holy—an experience that enlarges their interest in their fellow humans.
Bethel AME Boston’s response to sexual violence in the community
“We’re going to do what it takes,” says co-pastor Gloria White-Hammond, “to be our sister’s keeper.”
How the FBI has shaped American religion
J. Edgar Hoover's influence was even farther reaching than we know.
Poetry for the sake of creation
In the face of unprecedented assaults on planet Earth, what good is poetry?
Terry Brensinger demoted as a seminary president, Greg Boyd let go as a visiting scholar
Fresno Pacific University announced it was taking Brensinger and Boyd out of their respective roles. The cause—and any connection between the two actions—is unclear.
October 21, Ordinary 29B (Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45)
Bumbling along in the footsteps of Melchizedek
Martin Niemöller before the Nazis finally came for him
The German pastor opposed Hitler—eventually.
John Victor Samuel, Pakistani ecumenical leader, dies at age 87
Samuel was also the first Pakistani bishop in the Methodist Church.
In Albania, new Turkish-funded mosque stirs old resentments
The Great Mosque of Tirana is being built in “neo-Ottoman” style—in a country that rebelled against Ottoman rule.
Catholic, Aztec Mexico
In the 500 years since Catholicism came to Mexico, it has profoundly shaped and been shaped by the indigenous culture.
