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The Obama campaign, fictionalized

Vinson Cunningham’s debut novel focuses on a campaign staffer’s indeterminate views, using them to shed light on the rise of a political star.

November 10, Ordinary 32B (Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17)

Naomi is a climate refugee, displaced from her homeland by a natural disaster that results in widespread famine.

Mourning prayer

The church’s old cork board reminded me that our heartbroken cries godirectly to God.

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The Obama campaign, fictionalized

Vinson Cunningham’s debut novel focuses on a campaign staffer’s indeterminate views, using them to shed light on the rise of a political star.

November 10, Ordinary 32B (Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17)

Naomi is a climate refugee, displaced from her homeland by a natural disaster that results in widespread famine.

Politics

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?

Conspiracies of goodness

When I fear a dystopian future, I hold on to stories of everyday resistance.

When the doctrine of discovery became law

Steven Schwartzberg shows how the 19th-century arguments for Native American expulsion went against the intentions of the framers of the Constitution—and how they remain with us today.

Bridging the ideological divide

It isn’t easy to lower the temperature of our political discourse. But there are people working to help us have better conversations.