Music for the apocalypse
Growing up, I never understood the book of Revelation. Then I started listening to Black Sabbath.
The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment
The tropes that birth the hero
Books
Evangelical reckonings
What if your plants could hear you?
What White Christians did to Black Charlotte
Re-enchanting reading
In This Issue
Sheer vulnerability
December 8, Advent 2C (Baruch 5:1-9; Luke 1:68-79; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6)
Music for the apocalypse
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December 8, Advent 2C (Baruch 5:1-9; Luke 1:68-79; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6)
The days are coming (Jeremiah 33:14-16)
Episode 44: Biblical scholar and theologian Peter Enns, author of Curveball
Voices
Heidi Neumark
Advent in the squatters’ camp
As a human rights worker during Argentina’s Dirty War, I learned to read the signs.
Jonathan Tran
Keep swinging for the fences
My decades of church life have been full of the stuff one might expect from a place that promises God and only sometimes delivers.
Isaac S. Villegas
Divine silence
A Quaker colleague taught me how stillness exercises agency, how it acts upon worshipers.
Debie Thomas
Ancestral blessings
I attended a talk by a pastor who begins services by asking, “Who do you bring into worship with you?”
Brian Bantum
Stretched between life’s verses
The future is scary: we simply don’t know, and it flies toward us anyway.
Yolanda Pierce
Lessons from the land of lake effect snow
Life can be as unpredictable as the weather in upstate New York. But God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Politics
Music for the apocalypse
Evangelical reckonings
The tropes that birth the hero
