Ancestral blessings

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

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Re-enchanting reading

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

Ancestral blessings

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

The Wild Robot asks what makes us human

We are animals that need to overcome our instincts, robots that need to overcome our rationality.

Politics

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.

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.

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.