Standing before Isaiah
This year, the most famous Dead Sea Scroll went on display in its entirety for the first time since 1968. The prophet’s metaphors ring as precisely as ever.
Waking up in a no-longer-red state
Bonhoeffer’s warning
The rise of the American Muslim public servant
Books
Birds, blood, and scripture’s silenced women
Trending topics: Our cats, ourselves
A war dog’s odyssey
Reading the Bible as if trans lives depended on it
In This Issue
November 15, Ordinary 33A (Matthew 25:14–30)
Birds, blood, and scripture’s silenced women
The Leonard Cohen 10k challenge
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.
Politics
Waking up in a no-longer-red state
Bonhoeffer’s warning
The rise of the American Muslim public servant
