Life of Faith
My pandemic obsession with workplace comedies
Mythic Quest and Call My Agent have me feeling nostalgic for annoying colleagues and pointless meetings.
What if forgiveness were unthinkable?
Paul Kahn’s memoir of his family is a cautionary mirror for our cultural moment.
Judaism scholar Susannah Heschel on her father’s legacy
“How does a political gesture become a moment of prayer?”
Author Walter Wangerin’s many lives and words
Those of us who worked with him sometimes suspected he had cloned himself.
A father and his dying daughter came to see me. They wanted different things.
Sometimes truth is better than comfort.
From Dante to Tina Fey, a romp through history with Jesus’ Beatitudes
Blessed are those who read this wise and lovely book.
My hospice nurse’s horse
The mare pulled the meniscus in her knee. This left my nurse with a tough choice.
When goodness is also lovely
The New Testament has two words for “good.” Knowing the difference between them can help us build a better society.
Addressing educational inequity means loving other people’s children
Courtney Martin invites progressive parents to reckon with racial justice.
The Naming Project is a Christian camp that celebrates LGBTQ teens as they are
“We ask questions like, who am I? Who did God make me to be?”
August 29, Ordinary 22B (James 1:17–27)
Hearing the word and doing it aren’t as far apart as Martin Luther thought.
It takes faith to resist the attention economy
We need to relearn a capacity to dwell in God’s presence.
The dangers of providing pastoral care
Woundedness is the predictable price we pay for being sent on outrageous assignments by Jesus.
On her deathbed, St. Clare of Assisi blessed God
Her radical final words confounded me for years.
Birthing you is an act of radical hope
Accepting the call to Black motherhood without averting my eyes from the spectacle of Black death
Has the pandemic prepared us for pilgrimages?
We’re hungrier than ever for physicality, place, and embodiment.
How do parents pass along their faith to children?
Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk’s sociological study offers some clues.
My first post-pandemic flight was a bumpy ride
I murmured my prayers, counted my breaths, and got through it.
The good news in John Green’s reviews of Diet Dr Pepper and sunsets
He says they’re memoirs, but I’m onto him. The Anthropocene Reviewed is more like a collection of sermons.