Arts & Culture
In praise of church musicians
Great leaders of congregational song attend to the new community formed every time a church gathers.
A holy fool with chocolate
Understanding Wonka in light of the gospel’s message of radical, unconfined love
William Guthrie’s weird Christianity
The rector of St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery brought the church into relationship with the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1920s.
The Bright Word
Some words, some narratives like birds with bright wing feathers, swoop into the mind, provocative, daring....
A refugee’s lonely heart
Beth Nguyen’s second memoir is a deep dive into the void of a mother’s absence and the silence surrounding it.
A Woman of Salt Near the Dead Sea
I have seen the pillar of salt, and it remains to this day. —Flavius Josephus, first century CE...
In search of Rumi’s live heart
Looking for an Arabic translation of a favorite line, I found myself on a treasure hunt.