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A famous Passion play’s evolution
In Oberammergau, the keepers of a centuries-old tradition have made
big changes—including efforts to expunge antisemitic material.
February 12, Ep6A (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)
If God gives growth and growth means change, the implications are broad.
Paul echoes Jesus’ prayer for his disciples: that they may be one.
My father’s last decision
On Christmas morning, he told us: he was considering suicide.
by Peter Luckey
A liturgy in the borderlands
Alvaro Enciso plants crosses where migrants have died, to keep them from disappearing into oblivion.
Was my father right to embrace predestination?
If we take the doctrine seriously, then we dare not draw the circle of salvation along religious lines. Or any lines at all.
Dethroning the canonical Paul
Cavan Concannon believes that the apostle’s writings belong in the latrine.
by Greg Carey
We live between variants; we also live between Advents.
The mystical significance of Jesus’ resurrection
We don’t need to debate the possibility of a reanimated corpse. We need to reimagine our whole understanding of the material world.
January 30, Epiphany 4C (1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30)
If Jesus is with the other guy, how can he be with us?
January 23, Epiphany 3 (Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a; Luke 4:14-21)
The word of God is living and active; it meets us where we are.
December 19, Advent 4C (Luke 1:39-45, 46-55)
It’s hard to believe in an enchanted world.
Paul offers a meantime ethic, a witness of the death Jesus still endures until death disappears in his return.
by Wes D. Avram
Perhaps Paul can help our anti-mask congregants recognize authority—or at least common sense.
by Brian Maas
There’s a whole lotta repenting going on in these texts.
by Brian Maas
Thinking better about autism
Grant Macaskill’s reflection on neurodiversity becomes a stimulus to renewal of faith.
by Samuel Wells
Thinking better about autism
Grant Macaskill’s reflection on neurodiversity becomes a stimulus to renewal of faith.
by Samuel Wells
Imagination as a lens for making sense of the world
Cultivating a shared Christian imagination
by Zen Hess
We might add to Paul's list gifts for offering comfort, or explaining new guidelines, or displaying ease with technology.
by Martha Spong
Seeing disability through a lens of wonder
Brian Brock’s book is both academic and deeply personal.
by Aaron Klink