Waking up in a no-longer-red state
Here in Texas, Republican dominance just collapsed in an evening. The state was also the site of some earlier signs of the national blue wave to come.
Books

Trending topics: Our cats, ourselves
A war dog’s odyssey
Reading the Bible as if trans lives depended on it
The settlers didn’t just seize land—they remade religion
News
In This Issue
The Leonard Cohen 10k challenge
Trending topics: Our cats, ourselves
Bonhoeffer’s warning
Voices
Benjamin J. Dueholm
The Leonard Cohen 10k challenge
I decided to listen to his whole discography while running. Even as slowly as I run, it would take a lot of kilometers to do it.
Stephanie Perdew
Chasing shinies in a secular age
Is Pokémon GO a late-capitalist venture in re-enchanting the world?
Phil Christman
The politics of cutting people off
Political breakups aren’t some new low in American life. They’re an understandable response to stakes that have always been life and death.
Julian DeShazier
Rebirth pangs
Where something has died, something else must now be born. It’s not going to be fun.
Brian Bantum
My prayer for soldiers
I looked up to see a line of 50 kids in uniform boarding the plane. Every one of them had brown skin like mine.
Peter Choi
A gospel of belonging in Korea
It’s my first time here in decades, and I have been struck by the depth of relational intimacy on display everywhere I go.

