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A vibrant Christianity in South India
Despite the government’s desire to eliminate non-Hindu faiths, churches thrive in the nation’s diverse south.
Benedict options learned from actual Benedictines
Patrick Henry’s vision of monasticism is not a fleeing ark, but a marsh teeming with life.
Preparing for winter, preparing for God
The Spirit’s presence often feels like winter’s dry wind.
In America, Jesus is Black because he was Jewish
As James Cone argued, the universal is revealed in the particular.
February 20, Epiphany 7 (Luke 6:27-38)
It’s a terrible fact that we have so many opportunities to love our enemies.
Lauren Groff builds a proto-feminist medieval world
But the enchantment of Matrix is ultimately broken by her language.
Reformed Church in America splits
On New Year’s Day, 43 congregations of the Reformed Church in America split from the national denomination, one of the oldest Protestant bodies in the United States, in part over theological differ...
Episcopal Church webinar marks 20 years of Guantanamo Bay human rights ‘disaster’
Twenty years ago, the first detainees arrived at the United States detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror, launched in 2001 in response to th...
MCC sends relief to Cubans in crisis
Over the last two years, pandemic travel restrictions have deprived Cubans of one of their most important sources of income: tourism....
Was Mary Magdalene really from Magdala? Two scholars examine the evidence
The findings were heralded with bold headlines. Archaeologists excavating near the Israeli town of Migdal, also known as Magdala, had found remnants of a first-century synagogue....
Indigenous Mormons struggle to balance pride in the faith with LDS history
When Sarah Newcomb was in third grade, she and her classmates got their choice of roles in the Thanksgiving play: a Pilgrim with a buckled hat or a Native American wearing a feathered headband....
Author, Peace activist Jim Forest dies at 80
Orthodox author and peace activist Jim Forest died January 13 at the age of 80....
UMC's first Asian American bishop, Wilbur Choy, dies at 103
Wilbur Wong Yan Choy, the first Asian American to be elected as a United Methodist bishop in the United States, died December 28, 2021. He was 103....
Hyacinth Stevens to lead MCC East Coast
Hyacinth Stevens has been named the executive director of Mennonite Central Committee’s East Coast office....
Candice Marie Benbow hired by TheGrio
Theologian and essayist Candice Marie Benbow has been hired as the daily lifestyle, education, and health writer at TheGrio, MSNBC’s website for Black news and entertainment....
A different day than we imagined (Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10)
This isn't the day we envisioned, but it is holy because God is in it.
Episode 13: Opening unto mystery | A conversation with Elyse Ambrose
Mysticism is an orientation to life.