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Discovering our voices together after my wife’s stroke
With her own voice changed by the stroke, she wanted to hear the Bible spoken aloud by her husband.
Lisa Sharon Harper’s memoir of the legacy of slavery
Fortune gives a wrenching account of intergenerational trauma and its costs.
The book of Job is a parody
Sometimes I picture its author looking down at us and shaking his head.
Byzantine and Catholic
Millions of Christians worship like the Orthodox but are aligned with Rome. Andy Warhol was one of them.
A rabbi’s poetic wrestling with faith after the Shoah
In Yehiel Poupko’s poems, Jewish belief in God groans under the burden of divine silence.
How should Asian American Christians respond to anti-Asian racism?
Be like water: clear, humble, persistent, and restorative.
Focus on the breath (John 20:19-31)
Jesus, fresh out of his own three-day savasana, breathes on the disciples.
Good parenting is rooted in warm relationships
But sometimes it also requires clever tactics.
Eastern wisdom for Western Christians
“Looking east can free us a bit from our anxiety or ecclesiastical culture wars or general air of being panicked and overstretched.”
The end of endless wars?
Andrew Bacevich and Samuel Moyn each seek a reckoning on how the United States uses its military abroad.
Episode 8: Understanding the shadow with Laurie Gudim
“For me, the most important thing in the entire world is connecting people with their sense of what is holy. It’s really important to me that people find their own personal connection. I’m a mystic who wants to teach people how to be mystics, how to engage that relationship with the Holy Other.”
QAnon moms
The infiltration of online parenting spaces began as a slow burn. During the pandemic, it’s picked up speed.
May 15, Easter 5C (Acts 11:1-18; John 13:31-35)
Peter is hardly the first person to challenge the status quo because of something God told him in a dream.
Three reasons gerrymandering is bad for democracy (no matter who does it)
It’s not just about an overall partisan advantage.
