Features

We keep turning women into monsters

Reading Eleanor Johnson's new book while watching the Lindsay Clancy trial, I realized we’re still using the same ancient myths against women.
by Jessica Mesman
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Annie Dillard’s unrestrained hallelujah

The visionary writer showed us that paying attention could make us certain that the world is holy.
by Amy Frykholm
Features

Understanding polyamory

Alternatives to monogamous marriage are going mainstream. How will Christians respond?
by David Congdon
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The price of AI’s techno-religious promises

The environment is not the only sacrifice we’re being asked to make. Workers, too, are being offered up.
by Colton Bernasol
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Wendell Berry’s vision of a sacred world

Experience, reading, and the daily rounds of farm work taught Wendell that scripture is correct: Every creature and every inch of earth is made and approved by God.
by Norman Wirzba

Books

Lonely conspiracists

Noelle Cook opens a window into the lives of two insurrectionists, Yvonne and Tammy, as they navigate the world after January 6.
by Keri Ladner

An NGO’s complex ethics

Journalist Ross Halperin tells the story of two friends whose work in Honduras finds them bearing the high costs of discipleship.
by Aimee Allison Hein

In love with a fantasy

Amanda McCracken thought she’d been unlucky in love. Instead she’d been faithful to the idea of longing itself.
by Kristel Clayville

Something resembling God

Adam Hughes explores the far side of certainty and what happens when belief begins to dissolve.
by Garrett Mostowski

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In the Lectionary

September 27, Ordinary 26A (Exodus 17:1–7; Psalm 78:1–4, 12–16)

God’s people are in the desert by design, and the desert is, by design, dry.
by JoAnn A. Post
In the Lectionary

September 20, Ordinary 25A (Matthew 20:1–16)

A day’s wage for a day’s work? There is no such thing in a farm family.
by JoAnn A. Post
In the Lectionary

September 13, Ordinary 24A (Exodus 14:19–31; Psalm 114)

Sometimes God changes history by moving oceans, sometimes by making the wheels fall off.
by Timothy Adkins-Jones

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Politics

Features

Where the salmon run again

In the Pacific Northwest, an era of dam removal has begun.
by John Rosenberg
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Voices

A politics of grievance in the vineyard

The language may change, but Matthew 20’s underlying question remains: Who belongs, and who does not?
by Kelly Brown Douglas
Books

Lonely conspiracists

Noelle Cook opens a window into the lives of two insurrectionists, Yvonne and Tammy, as they navigate the world after January 6.
by Keri Ladner
First Words

Masks hide us—and shape us

When extremists don disguises and terrorize others, they also do grave moral damage to themselves.
by Peter W. Marty

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