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Clarissa and her flowers

Reading The Hours in my husband’s hospital room, I was stunned by the novel’s incarnational imagery.

by Caroline Langston
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Vegetables that are fearfully and wonderfully made

My friend left me his CSA share for two weeks. It changed the way I look at labor.
by Alejandra Oliva
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Being salt

When I got into cooking, it changed the way I understand Jesus’ statement, “You are the salt of the earth.”
by Brian Bantum
Features

Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.
by Wendell Berry
News

After Hurricane Helene, faith groups ramp up disaster relief

by Bob Smietana

Books

For love of Dante

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell writes, in 39 poems, a charmingly backhanded love letter to the Italian poet.
by Roger Ferlo

Piercing the veil

Zach Williams’s stories of everyday life are propelled by strange turns of events, like a dad discovering his son’s sixth toe in the bath.
by Joshua B. Grace

Does Nathan Hill wink at us in Wellness?

Why are non-White characters so absent from this urban/suburban narrative?
by Ken Bigger

A Lincoln parable

Civil War historian Allen Guelzo documents Lincoln’s faith—not in God but in the American experiment.
by Stephen Healey

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Episode 43: Educator and podcaster Sharon McMahon, author of The Small and the Mighty

A conversation with Sharon McMahon about Alexander Hamilton, enslavement, Quakers, and more
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Vegetables that are fearfully and wonderfully made

My friend left me his CSA share for two weeks. It changed the way I look at labor.
by Alejandra Oliva
In the Lectionary

October 20, Ordinary 29B (Hebrews 5:1–10)

It can be easy to read this portion of Hebrews as making glory out of what is inglorious.
by Meghan Murphy-Gill
Sunday’s Coming

Preaching against the rich (Mark 10:17-31)

When the world is in peril and the rich are to blame, such preaching becomes essential.

by Clint Schnekloth

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Brian Bantum

Being salt

When I got into cooking, it changed the way I understand Jesus’ statement, “You are the salt of the earth.”

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Politics

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Vegetables that are fearfully and wonderfully made

My friend left me his CSA share for two weeks. It changed the way I look at labor.
by Alejandra Oliva
Books

A Lincoln parable

Civil War historian Allen Guelzo documents Lincoln’s faith—not in God but in the American experiment.
by Stephen Healey
Features

Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.
by Wendell Berry
First Words

Playing to the crowds

J. D. Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants reveal his willingness to trade his dignity for attention.
by Peter W. Marty

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