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An island in the storm
Paul Harding’s evocative novel begins with the 1815 hurricane off the New England coast.
My double vision
I like to think Jesus gives the blind man in Mark 8 vision of another kind: to see past the limits of human sight.
Nature is not an escape
To understand this, I had to stop reading John Muir and turn to the nature writing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Memoir of a native son’s son
Keenan Norris’s sobering book explores Chicago’s role in forging the identity of the Black man in modern America.
An architecture of care in Calais
At the Maria Skobtsova House, refugees and volunteers work to counteract the cruel logic of the refugee crisis.
January 14, Epiphany 2B (John 1:43–51)
Jesus’ word of insight to Nathanael seems a lot like a carnival grift.
Harmful people with helpful ideas
I still read Luther, Calvin, and de Beauvoir. But John Howard Yoder’s sexual abuse has made me rethink my mindset.
The cost of parking
Henry Grabar makes the case that in nearly any realm, from the environment to the economy, justice starts with parking reform.
The Iowa poet-priest who mastered haiku
Raymond Roseliep quietly became one of the most highly regarded haiku poets in the English language.
Were the lost gospels really lost?
The myth that alternative gospels were suppressed by empire and only recently rediscovered is too good to be true.
The magi and their epiphany (Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12)
Do they later say to their friends, “How could we not have known?”
Understanding the ideology of guns
Sociologist Jennifer Carlson interviewed 50 gun sellers to find out why so many Americans flock toward firearms.
Seeing abortion access as a blessing
“Abortion is not abstract,” says Katey Zeh, CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. “It happens within the context of a real person’s life.”
January 7, Baptism of the Lord B (Mark 1:4–11)
As if he were working on an assembly line, John dips and raises, dips and raises.