Life of Faith
A tech-savvy Christian sexual ethic
Kate Ott challenges us to practice erotically attuned love everywhere, even online.
Is The Hero of this Book a novel or a memoir?
In either case, Elizabeth McCracken’s account of losing a mother is wrenching and tender.
A queer boy in North Dakota
Taylor Brorby’s coming-of-age memoir is a work of defiance. But it is not a tragedy.
How we care for dead bodies—or don’t
Cody Sanders and Mikeal Parsons yearn for a better theology around death, dying, and the body.
Jesus is traumatized
Minister and veteran David Peters invites us to consider our own post-traumatic identities in a new light.
The woman behind tarot’s strange beauty
I wonder how Pamela Colman Smith worked it out in reverse, led by her own creativity straight to the Catholic Church—the place I’ve tried to leave.
Prayer as mourning, mourning as prayer
In Jon Fosse’s Septology, a tragic vision of faith shines with a luminous darkness.
The novelist and the theologian
I’m trying to live as Haruki Murakami writes: with questions but not an end in mind.
Reading the Bible with a transgender minister
Shannon Kearns knows and is known by scripture deeply; he knows scripture better because he is trans.
In Search of Interspiritual Truth: An Interview with John Thatamanil (S2:E8)
“If I’m truly, as a Christian, to affirm that core affirmation that God so loved the world, then divine disclosure must be happening far beyond the boundaries of the Christian tradition.”
Our teens are not OK
Especially the girls, whose depression levels are at record highs. Can the church help?
Staying awake for Easter
What ritual remedies exist to sharpen our spiritual attention, focus, and clarity?
In Search of Truth: Journalism with Dawn Araujo-Hawkins (S2:E7)
“The job of a journalist is to call a spade a spade. If something is racist, if it’s homophobic, if it’s xenophobic, it’s our job to say that . . . to be as explicit as we can about it.”
In Search of Truth: Physics with Zeeya Merali (S2:E6)
“I went there originally to go and speak to him about his ideas for the origins of space and time, but in the back of my mind, I wanted to ask him about his practices meditating, just as an aside maybe.”
Back to basics with a Dutch Nazi resistor
K. H. Miskotte wrote a Karl Barth for Dummies in 1941. It offers a bracing challenge today.
Encouraged by donkeys
For almost 40 years they have done their plodding, gracious work on me and my vocation.