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The disciples’ job interview (Luke 5:1-11)
Let’s see how they measure up to Indeed.com’s suggestions.
Cultivating Christ-like compassion
We may feel compassion in our guts, but we learn it by practicing empathic solidarity.
We need a more robust theology of holy delight
Christianity is not only about pain and death. It’s about life and joy.
Episode 14: Poet and writer Kaitlin Curtice, author of Native
A conversation with author Kaitlin Curtice about poetry, women as water protectors, baptism, land acknowledgments, and more
The value of jokes in Jewish-Christian dialogue
Have you heard the one about the priest, the minister, and the rabbi?
Approaching religious pluralism through the Bible’s other brothers
Tyler Mayfield offers a fresh look at Cain, Ishmael, and Esau.
February 27, Transfiguration B (Luke 9:28-36 [37-43a])
In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus—like Moses and Elijah—is a figure of departure.
How playwright Tetsuro Shigematsu has transformed my homiletics classes
His advice: be yourself, be underprepared, be weird.
Faithful, unimportant work (Luke 4:21-30)
Jesus refuses at every turn to do something important, the things his neighbors thought he should do when he grew up.
We need a word for mothers whose children have died
Karla F. C. Holloway offers one from Sanskrit: vilomah.
A vibrant Christianity in South India
Despite the government’s desire to eliminate non-Hindu faiths, churches thrive in the nation’s diverse south.
Benedict options learned from actual Benedictines
Patrick Henry’s vision of monasticism is not a fleeing ark, but a marsh teeming with life.
Preparing for winter, preparing for God
The Spirit’s presence often feels like winter’s dry wind.
In America, Jesus is Black because he was Jewish
As James Cone argued, the universal is revealed in the particular.
February 20, Epiphany 7 (Luke 6:27-38)
It’s a terrible fact that we have so many opportunities to love our enemies.
Lauren Groff builds a proto-feminist medieval world
But the enchantment of Matrix is ultimately broken by her language.
