Life of Faith
How I learned to love church coffee
“The coffee is much better now that we attend a Lutheran church,” I told my husband, wailing.
Faith is a gift to relax into
The Greek word for faith, pistis, isn’t about assenting to beliefs. It’s about trust.
Green burial as an act of faith
A growing number of Christians are embracing natural burial practices.
For BLM cofounder Alicia Garza, organizing is about doing the work no one wants to do
Someone has got to do the dishes.
Encountering Alice Neel’s paintings of mothers while pregnant
Her complex portraits reveal an alchemy of desire, pain, power, and weakness.
Living between the Bible’s first and last prayers
Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”
How I came to love embodied prayer
I tried it—and I began to experience God in places other than my head.
Living a simplified life in France
Eric Freeze and his family moved to Nice—in order to spend less and live better.
Rachel Gross wants to blur the distinction between Jewish culture and Jewish religion
Being Jewish goes beyond the synagogue.
Drawing close to Howard Thurman
Two new books invite us to learn from what others have loved about the civil rights icon.
The grace of holding my dying father’s hand during the pandemic
The word contagion comes from the Latin words for “with” and “touch.”
Karl Barth’s wisdom for fathers (and mothers, and all children of God)
Before you had a human parent, you had a perfect one.
Lucilla Goodman and other ordinary saints
Her epitaph, “She hath done what she could,” says a lot.
How Princeton Seminary’s slavery audit created moments of unlikely intimacy
We need structural change. We also need to be willing to be personally undone.
Where is my love to go?
Imagine God asking that question. You’ll get an insight into God’s heart.
Where my faith and my work as a scientist meet
It’s difficult to study the phylogenetic tree and still feel lonely.
James Martin offers a primer for prayer
His definition of prayer is simple: conscious conversation with God.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil shows us the worlds she sees
The poet’s collection of essays is so vivid, we can smell, hear, taste, touch, and see her rapture.