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Reimagining how we reimagine church
We need to end our obsession with novelty and corporate jargon.
A theology of heaven for our time
To affirm the truth of heaven is to fire our spiritual imaginations for this life.
by Debie Thomas
Christian nationalism vandalizes the imagination
When churches whitewashed their walls, they left themselves vulnerable.
by Lanta Davis
Jesus the poet
We are invited to bring the rich resources of our senses and imaginations into the realm of faith.
The artist at the end of the world
Scott Russell Sanders’s essays balance ecological despair with the promise of human creativity.
by Tom Montgomery Fate
Imagination as a lens for making sense of the world
Cultivating a shared Christian imagination
by Zen Hess
Imagination is at the heart of faith
It’s not that we lack information about religion. It’s that we don’t deeply inhabit the religious stories we do know.
My brother is nine and I am ten. Wood already obeys his hands when he asks it gently to work with him.
by Brian Doyle
If Christian liturgy works on the imagination, so do disordered secular liturgies. Social media—despite its good uses—might be one example.
by James K. A. Smith
by Stephen H. Webb