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The radicalism of Azusa Street
Keri Day places the 1906 revival at the intersection of White evangelicalism, American capitalism, and racism.
Welcome to the commodity biopic
These movies about influential consumer objects aren’t really origin stories at all.
Sing a rights-cleared song to the Lord
“Each report we receive at ONE LICENSE turns into a royalty payment,” says Brenna Cronin, “and those payments are someone’s livelihood.”
Domestic poverty and who it serves
Matthew Desmond unties the knot of being poor in the US—and shows the rest of us that we hold the strings.
The book editor who inadvertently helped empty America’s pews
Stephen Prothero’s biography of Eugene Exman reveals how the bestsellers he acquired taught people to be spiritual but not religious.
June 25, Ordinary 12A (Romans 6:1b–11)
False security is a lovely, loathsome thing.
Holy wild card (Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19)
Why Howard Thurman dedicated his autobiography to a stranger
Transformed by the dog I never wanted
She’s helping me answer the question, “Why this life instead of another?”
Reading scripture through the lens of nature
Daniel Cooperrider understands the Bible as an outdoor book, open to the sky.
Down to earth
For philosopher Costica Bradatan, failure delivers self-knowledge in a way that success cannot.
June 18, Ordinary 11A (Genesis 18:1–15)
The prankster is God, through whom all things are possible.
The altar in my attic
My boxes of old sermons are a monument to my church’s ongoing conversation with God.
Why and how I believe in miracles
I don’t struggle with their plausibility. I do struggle with their consequences.
Jesus’ manner of mercy (Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26)
At Matthew’s house, we learn about more than just Jesus’ message.