January 15, Second Sunday after Epiphany
John 1:29–42
Swaddled in an orange jumpsuit
She gave birth to a son in the back of a squad car.
Inshallah
When one of the young Syrian women lit a memorial candle during worship, it represented a great deal of loss.
Read THE COW IS NOW said the child
The cow is now.
Lowing and chewing,
no mewing or bowing to spring
like that upon a rat.
The cow’s no cat.
In grass to eat
or stream to drink,
the cow’s a statue against the sky.
Her great head still,
her eyes staring at you,
she parks.
A dog remembers you, and barks,
but the vacant-eyed cow is only now
I mean
she lives right now,
Why existentialism still matters
Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus have something to say about living authentically.
First global study of religion and education shows progress, gaps
The first-ever global study of religion and education shows that Jews are more highly educated than any other religious group, while Hindus and Muslims are the least educated.
A Christian governor in Jakarta
He’s a powerful leader in the world’s largest Muslim nation—and he’s popular, too.
Possibilities, not prescriptions
Writing may not cure cancer, but it helps with the side effects.
Theologizing while brown
Haunted by the past. Dreaming about another America.
Christmas hope beyond our fears
I suspect the police officer who shot Walter Scott, and the jurors at his trial, were shaped similarly to how I was as a child in North Carolina.