Yes, says Katelyn Beaty, who defines celebrity as “fame’s shinier, slightly obnoxious cousin.”
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Returning to a book that shaped my imagination
Is there a word for nostalgia tinged with trauma?
Epistles of hope for our time
Randal Jelks and Shaka Senghor both write with realism but not fatalism.
A reminder of what s worth saving
Elizabeth Weinberg’s call to climate action highlights the interconnection of all things.
October 23 Ordinary 30C Joel 2 23 32
I often read the first stanza of the poem “Bible Study” by Tony Hoagland as a prayer: “Who would have imagined that I would have to go / a million miles away from the place where I was born / to find people who would love me? / And that I would go that distance and that I would find those people?”
An unfettered life
What if God longs for freedom as passionately as I do?
Eye Essays by readers
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Eye.”
Persia s first American missionaries
Justin Perkins and Charlotte Bass suffered multiple losses during their missionary years. Was it worth it?
October 16 Ordinary 29C Luke 18 1 8
My husband and I were born and bred in the Upper Midwest. When our son moved to Atlanta, we got our first exposure to that part of the South. One of the first places we visited was the Martin Luther King Jr. Center. We toured the old Sweet Auburn neighborhood and the house where King grew up. We checked out the exhibits about the civil rights movement and heard stories about the lives of King and his family.
Post-evangelical healing
Charles Marsh writes beautifully about the anxiety instilled by his childhood faith—and the therapy it took to overcome it.