Stronger than all evil things
Two of her uncles went missing, she told us when we asked why she’d left her homeland as a child.
After the uncles, her favorite cousin.
She and her brother kissed their parents.
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Faith comes by hand
Lately I’ve been thinking about hands. It started last summer, when I realized I was shaking someone’s hand for the first time in two years. Even before COVID, hand shaking was dropping out of my repertoire. I moved to Japan in 2018, and they bow here instead of shaking hands. Nothing tells you you’re a Westerner like the compulsion to shove your sweaty palm into a stranger’s.
Tyre Nichols s killing is not an exception
Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.
A mosaic of story
Systematic: an organized set of doctrines, ideas, or principles usually intended to explain the arrangement or working of a systemic whole.
SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR I welcome students into a classroom where they are introduced to theology. They are supposed to learn the history of Christian doctrines, understand their interrelationships, and begin to recognize the theologies that shape them even as they encounter the theologies of others.