Life of Faith
Donna Haskins defeats the devil
Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject.
Leave it with me
He was moving away, the stranger said, and he wanted to leave a box in my care.
A body in pain navigates the world
Poet Molly McCully Brown’s memoir of life with cerebral palsy
10 ways for Christians to embrace our creative power
Being born is a holy calling to join God in free, joyful, and playful expression.
The real Eugene Peterson
Many of my LGBTQ friends and clergy sisters have disavowed Peterson’s writings. Not I.
April 18, Easter 3B (Luke 24:36b-48)
In case flesh and bone aren’t enough to convince the disciples, Jesus also asks for dinner.
Why I’ve come back around to substitutionary atonement
Sometimes sacrifice is an act of love.
I want to talk to Thomas Merton about race
Merton has been my spiritual companion, but as a Black woman, I have questions for him.
A meditation on Jazz during Lent
We are flakes of snow; we are notes vanishing in the air.
Sin is like a suitcase abandoned at the baggage claim
Lent beckons us to claim those forgotten things we’d packed away.
March 28, Passion Sunday B (Mark 14:1-15:47)
Did Easter even come last year? Will it ever come again?
The righteousness of the prude and the righteousness of the lover
Martin Luther went looking for God—and found Christ on the cross.
Imagine how Christian teaching could transform our lives
Mark Jordan’s gentle, urgent invitation