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The beauty of representation in children’s books
“I was a child who loved to read. But I didn’t see a lot of characters that looked like me.”
October 31, Ordinary 31B (Ruth 1:1-18)
The story of two grieving and economically insecure women is the hinge of the entire covenant history.
Miriam Toews explores religious trauma through the voice of a nine-year-old
Swiv isn’t an unreliable narrator, but she’s living in a world that feels unreliable.
For Haitian migrants, temporary protected status is not enough
TPS is a short-term solution to an enduring problem rooted in centuries of Haitian history.
Kate Bowler finds good news in hard truths
No Cure for Being Human offers a model for negotiating suffering with honesty.
Cooking my way through Africa’s east coast
Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen offer a rare thing: an English-language cookbook of African food that isn’t from Ethiopia.
Job scrapes for answers (Job 1:1, 2:1-10)
It is as if every person who asks why bad things happen to good people takes a potsherd and starts scraping.
Have Steve Jobs and his gadgets made us less human?
It’s possible he created more problems than he solved.
Albert J. Raboteau changed both American religious studies and African American studies
He was among the first to ask, What is religion for a people birthed in the cradle of chattel slavery?
When Mennonites were settlers
John Eicher’s history exposes European Mennonite complicity in Native dispossession.
Living and leading from our mortality
“Yearning for life is a part of what it means to be human.”
