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November 1, All Saints A (Psalm 34:1–10, 22)
The psalmists—all of them—were folks besotted with God.
The banality of ICE
Sometimes evil looks like our neighbors wearing tactical vests.
Ode to Sister Cummings (1 Thessalonians 2:1-8)
Paul focuses on Christ—and then on others.
The settlers didn’t just seize land—they remade religion
Tisa Wenger traces the ways colonial power transformed Native spiritual worlds while reshaping American Christianity itself.
The politics of cutting people off
Political breakups aren’t some new low in American life. They’re an understandable response to stakes that have always been life and death.
Trending topics: Hunger horror
Five horror novels about people wracked by ravenous, insatiable hunger—and one bloodthirsty sentient plant
The empire’s uniforms in the world’s oldest colony
Puerto Ricans have a proud heritage of fighting against imperialism—and a long history of serving in the US military.
October 25, Ordinary 30A (1 Thessalonians 2:1–8)
In our world, as in Paul’s, power announces itself by volume.
The holy resilience of Gisèle Pelicot
Pelicot doesn’t believe in God, but her memoir of surviving decades of her husband’s abuse testifies to the dignity of the human soul.
Letting the Bible read us
Do we allow scripture to shape our identity, or do we reshape scripture to fit the nation we imagine ourselves to be?
Naming the blessing (1 Thessalonians 1:1-10)
God may be found in anyone at any time.
Sarah Ruden vs. millennia of antiabortion men
The classicist goes on an energetic romp through the long history of what she sees as propaganda intended to control women.
Rebirth pangs
Where something has died, something else must now be born. It’s not going to be fun.
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