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An Omicron Christmas
I don’t know if this is the pandemic’s end game. I do know that new things are already being born in us.
Stories of the unhoused faithful
Listening to the poorest and most dislocated, Susan J. Dunlap hears the music of faith.
January 16, Epiphany 2C (John 2:1-11)
The wedding at Cana is a reminder that Jesus’ kingdom is a miraculous kingdom—a mystical kingdom.
A new translation of “The Dark Night of the Soul” thrills with adventure
In St. John of the Cross’s poetry, the dark night is also a night of profound, even ecstatic beauty.
Joining in song (Isaiah 52:7-10; Psalm 98; Hebrews 1:1-12)
Sometimes someone else has to start singing before we can.
Idylls without idols (1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26; Luke 2:41-52)
There’s a lot of a certain sort of pleasure pursued around Christmas.
The ultrarich and their total depravity
The White Lotus is part of a growing subgenre that probes extreme wealth as moral deformity.
Becoming a blessing (Hebrews 10:5–10)
God the Son is committed to gladly and freely doing the Father’s will.
In Cairo, I sat in on a scriptural reasoning group with Christians and Muslims
Moving beyond amicable consensus to productive discomfort
How 20th-century mainline Protestants shaped immigration policy
And how that policy shaped the 21st-century mainline church