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A luminous poetry collection marked by joy and sorrow, humor and truth.

Transcendent Kingdom explores an immigrant neuroscientist’s complicated relationship with evangelical Christianity.

Nine writers tell us about a book they’ve read recently that’s helped them reframe what it means to be a person of faith and a reader right now.

Every second is the straight gate through which the messiah might enter.  —Walter Benjamin

It’s late on earth

The sour smell
of unloved things
haunts our days

Like light
through a wire screen
hope passes through all things

Time is not an empty bright hallway
with a single door
at the end

and events do not line up dumbly
like the beads of a rosary

What we call now is
eternally pregnant
with all that has
come before

If you live in Savannah, Georgia, you know Panhandle Slim. His signature work appears on billboards and on schools, in homes, barbershops, and community centers. Recently four of his paintings were collected as part of a church fundraising auction, including one of Jesus and one of Kurt Vonnegut, complete with smart, barbed, life-honoring quotes. Panhandle Slim’s work with community activists and his ethic around what he calls “art for folk” draw from wisdom built from the days of his skateboarding career—when his joy diminished as he watched his brand become a high-end commodity.

Everything in Jack is a marvel.

Matt and Adam talk about the new Netflix movie Enola Holmes

That day gold inside me creating new eyes
amazed by the beauty of red tulips,
the skin of a baby, that stranger’s work
boots creased with glorious effort
Awake was worth all the pain it cost

Now then seeing being holding
Each and all
golden in hope
was     would     will be
all this broken beauty that sears like fire

God-gold’s warm bright indescribable love
that saved me then
Now
Not quite yet