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Andrew Packman
Andrew Packman is assistant professor of theological ethics and formation at United Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The consolation of studying theology
Theological education is precarious, inconvenient, and uncomfortable. So why do students keep enrolling?
Taking implicit racial bias seriously
Jennifer Eberhardt insists that personal prejudice is deeply embedded, politically potent, and ultimately beatable.
God makes a home
Jesus’ promise that he and God will come make a home with us sounds like good news to me.
Our so-called secular age purports to have disenchanted us of our pre-modern superstitions. Many of us find God’s stark absence from our daily affairs to be our most prominent experience of the divine.
Interfaith repertoire: A Bosnian choir sings reconciliation
In a place where the religious other quite recently meant the invading army that killed your father, Pontanima's work is remarkable.
Table manners: Unexpected grace at communion
In Bosnia, I was reminded that the God who shows up at communion is a God who brazenly seeks us out of the crowd.
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