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Giving women a voice at the seder table
Poet and liturgist Marcia Falk attempts to correct the gender bias of the traditional Passover Haggadah.
Episode 16: Sacred Attention | A conversation with Cole Arthur Riley
The creator of Black Liturgies has written a best-selling book about finding the sacred in her own skin.
The mystical significance of Jesus’ resurrection
We don’t need to debate the possibility of a reanimated corpse. We need to reimagine our whole understanding of the material world.
Episode 7: Thirsting for God with Wendy Farley
“Our whole life is really about desire.”
A redefined relationship (Hebrews 10:16-25)
How can we approach hope as we draw near to the cross?
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the monster of Whiteness
Unmasking and slaying our Promethean desire for mastery
May 8, Easter 4C (Acts 9:36-43; John 10:22-30)
Tabitha’s community embraces her in her season after loss.
Learning from Passover without co-opting it (Exodus 12:1-14)
How can these values be lived out in our traditions and in our assemblies?
Myanmar’s civil war has continued unabated for 60 years
How could a Buddhist country have one of the worst human rights records in the world?
Communion tears
In my 15 years as a pastor, I’ve seen a lot of watery eyes at the table.
For Simone Weil, philosophy was not merely academic
Robert Zaretsky offers a vivid picture of how truth telling made Weil’s life complicated.
What the stones have witnessed (Luke 19:28-40)
The biblical landscape is a stony one.
Tears are a gift from God
They put us in touch with essential things that we know to be dear or wrong.
John Boswell’s faith lit up a generation
My brother’s work paved the way for many LGBTQ Christians.
How harm reduction is winning the war against drug overdoses
Maia Szalavitz tells the story of a strategy that replaces criminalization with empathy.
Episode 6: Following the saints with Dan Koski
“You have to be willing to accept that if you call on this saint for help and guidance, he or she may call on you for challenges as well.”
I went to the first McDonald’s in Russia for the bathroom
As the Soviet Union crumbled, the West sent French fries.
Robert Pattinson gives us the Batman we need
He carries the hesitant masculinity of Twilight’s Edward Cullen in his body.