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First Person

Readers Write

Plate: Essays by readers

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Plate.”
April 28, 2020

First Person

How do we remember people killed by police?

Call their names. Tell their stories. Confess our role.
by Emily M. D. Scott
April 22, 2020

First Person

In this Easter season, words fail

After the resurrection, the disciples’ words failed too.
by Ruth Everhart
April 21, 2020

First Person

nursing baby

A confession to you, my nursing daughter

What am I to make of your singular desire for milk?
by Natalie Carnes
April 16, 2020

First Person

Potawatomi women are water protectors

I'm standing by Lake Michigan for the first time, but it already knows me.
by Kaitlin B. Curtice
April 15, 2020

First Person

man alone at window

The pandemic has made us unintentional monastics

We are urged into the desert of retreat, and we are afraid.
by Lucila Crena
April 14, 2020

Features

A congregation that spans the US-Mexico border

For more than a decade, Christians have worshiped together across the border wall.
by Amy Frykholm
April 9, 2020

First Person

How I learned to love worshiping via video call

I'm immunocompromised. My ability to attend worship has long been determined by the CDC.
by Kay Lynn Northcutt
April 8, 2020

First Person

Navigating the immigration labyrinth with two pastors facing deportation

We gathered in an ICE parking lot. Not to protest, but to show that we cared.
by Julia Lambert Fogg
April 7, 2020

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