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Persia’s first American missionaries
Justin Perkins and Charlotte Bass suffered multiple losses during their missionary years. Was it worth it?
October 16, Ordinary 29C (Luke 18:1–8)
Luke says this story is about prayer. But the widow keeps asking for justice.
Ordinary people (Luke 17:11-19)
There is nothing wrong with the nine. There is something extraordinary about the one.
The Christian God is a queer God
I cannot begin to imagine anything queerer than the doctrine of the Trinity.
Post-evangelical healing
Charles Marsh writes beautifully about the anxiety instilled by his childhood faith—and the therapy it took to overcome it.
On Native land
Land acknowledgments can do a lot of good—if they’re rooted in solid process and relationships.
When the Four Horsemen ride again
Climate change will have religious consequences, especially in the Global South.
A liturgy in the borderlands
Alvaro Enciso plants crosses where migrants have died, to keep them from disappearing into oblivion.
October 9, Ordinary 28C (Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7)
It’s not that Babylon was backward. But it wasn’t home.
Grandparenting with faith
Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter are grounded and experienced guides.
Is Sinéad O’Connor a secular saint?
A new documentary positions the fiery iconoclast as a prophet ahead of her time.
Nope and Prey represent a new kind of alien invasion film
Both movies critique the assumption that survival requires dominance.
Who’s responsible for coincidence?
Our spiritual lives would grow if we could step beyond the false notion that God arranges our circumstances.
How the Jerusalem temple fell
Josephus was tight with the emperor. Guy MacLean Rogers trusts his account anyway.
We need ritual for our collective grief
Going through the motions together can move us toward healing.
Episode 21: Activist and scholar Jemar Tisby, author of How to Fight Racism: Young Reader's Edition
A conversation with activist and New York Times bestselling author Jemar Tisby about racism, the concept of race, how to work for racial justice, and more
Mary, Joseph, and a tea vendor named Sami
In Luke’s Advent story, Bethlehem’s economy is central—and it looks a lot like Bethlehem’s economy today.
The menacing turn in our politics
Too many powerful people in public positions today refuse to repudiate the language of threat.