Life of Faith
The Christmas of Baby Tommy
We raised our kids without a religious narrative. My young son stumbled upon one on his own.
The grace of apocalyptic imagination
As the depth of the climate crisis is revealed, our despair grows. But God hovers at the edge of doom.
Eight homilies for practicing presence
Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we can build beloved community simply by showing up for one another.
Sheer vulnerability
The nakedness of the incarnation reframes what it means to be strong.
Advent in the squatters’ camp
As a human rights worker during Argentina’s Dirty War, I learned to read the signs.
What if your plants could hear you?
Science writer Zoë Schlanger investigates the edges of botany research—and uncovers deep philosophical questions.
There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment
Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of evil.
Divine silence
A Quaker colleague taught me how stillness exercises agency, how it acts upon worshipers.
Ancestral blessings
I attended a talk by a pastor who begins services by asking, “Who do you bring into worship with you?”
More than eulogies
French rabbi Delphine Horvilleur reflects on 11 funerals to paint a vibrant picture of Jewish life.
Stretched between life’s verses
The future is scary: we simply don’t know, and it flies toward us anyway.
Lessons from the land of lake effect snow
Life can be as unpredictable as the weather in upstate New York. But God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Mourning prayer
The church’s old cork board reminded me that our heartbroken cries go directly to God.
Conspiracies of goodness
When I fear a dystopian future, I hold on to stories of everyday resistance.
Bone chapels and their strange art
In catacombs, crypts, and ossuaries, I’ve seen the ugliness of death transformed into something beautiful.
Healing from the ground up
In her memoir, Lore Ferguson Wilbert draws connections between her life and the forest‘s understory.
Bridging the ideological divide
It isn’t easy to lower the temperature of our political discourse. But there are people working to help us have better conversations.