Washing my daughter’s hair

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. —Rainer Maria Rilke

In copious curls, her brown hair
reaches the small of her back,
a tangle she can barely brush

for she feels as though a thousand needles
perforate her scalp and a vise
tightens on her temples,

The church is called to be a loving critic, not a national cheerleader.

In September, Episcopal bishop Mariann Edgar Budde will travel to her mother’s homeland at the invitation of the Stockholm Cathedral.

Jerry Falwell wanted to prepare America for the end of the world. Ted Cruz’s evangelical backers want to take America over.

A Christianity that affirms the state’s wars is not Christianity. It is idolatry.

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