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There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment

Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of evil.

by Victoria Barnett
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A time to endure

As we approach another Trump presidency, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ecclesiastes.
by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
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Divine silence

A Quaker colleague taught me how stillness exercises agency, how it acts upon worshipers.
by Isaac S. Villegas
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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby to resign over handling of youth abuse scandal

by David Paulsen
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Ancestral blessings

I attended a talk by a pastor who begins services by asking, “Who do you bring into worship with you?”
by Debie Thomas

Books

What White Christians did to Black Charlotte

Greg Jarrell explores how one congregation in his city took advantage of racist urban renewal policies.
by Chad Martin

Re-enchanting reading

Craig Tichelkamp asks whether our best hope for restoring a culture of reading might lie centuries in the past.
by Lilia Ellis

A fictional reservation that feels real

Amy Frykholm’s novel creates a fascinating interplay of Native people and settlers whose lives are complicated by intergenerational trauma.
by Martin Kelsey Brokenleg

Wreckage and euphoria

Barbara Crooker’s new poetry collection is a journey through loss that reveals the world’s beauty.
by Steven Peterson

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Tony Campolo, sociologist and famed Red Letter Christian, dies at 89

by Bob Smietana
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Coming of age with girl detectives

Like her genre foremothers, the teen sleuth in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder isn’t just solving a crime, she’s figuring out her place in the world.
by Kathryn Reklis
Features

There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment

Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of evil.
by Victoria Barnett
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Creation justice project helps Episcopal churches find efforts that are right for them

by Melodie Woerman

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A time to endure

As we approach another Trump presidency, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ecclesiastes.
by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
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Jesus is Lord. No political leader is.

Maybe the kingdom of God isn’t like a king—maybe it’s like those who resist a king.
by Brandon Ambrosino
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Cecil Williams kept his ear to the ground

The longtime pastor of Glide Memorial Church was involved in nearly every major social justice movement in the Bay Area for 60 years.
by Annalise Deal
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True crime at the div school

In 1991, religion scholar Ioan Petru Culianu was murdered at the University of Chicago. Was this killing related to his controversial mentor, Mircea Eliade?
by J. Scott Jackson

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