Life of Faith
The altar in my attic
My boxes of old sermons are a monument to my church’s ongoing conversation with God.
God’s underwater language
As a marine biologist, I ask how—and dance at the edge of asking why.
Burnout and resilience in the wilderness
Many rural pastors like me are finding Jesus in the desert places.
The strangers who saved my life
When you receive an emergency transfusion, you don’t get to choose who the blood comes from.
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?