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What if forgiveness were unthinkable?
Paul Kahn’s memoir of his family is a cautionary mirror for our cultural moment.
Judaism scholar Susannah Heschel on her father’s legacy
“How does a political gesture become a moment of prayer?”
Paying the child tax credit forward
It’s a terrific policy for fighting child poverty. But my family doesn’t need the money.
Author Walter Wangerin’s many lives and words
Those of us who worked with him sometimes suspected he had cloned himself.
A male scholar looks at the Bible’s women
According to James McGrath, unless Jesus was able to learn from others, he wasn’t truly human.
Episode 9: The privilege of contemplation | A conversation with Anthea Butler
"The word ‘contemplative’ at this moment is a word that says ‘privilege.’ It means that you have time, and most people don’t have time.”
US climate action at last?
Congress may finally be poised to do something, though not enough.
September 19, Ordinary 25B (Proverbs 31:10–31)
Does a good woman give and give and give without thought to her own well-being?
Needing a warrior God (Ephesians 6:10-20)
The armor of God and the violence of the Bible
A father and his dying daughter came to see me. They wanted different things.
Sometimes truth is better than comfort.
Fighting for the humanities at church-related colleges
“What good is a Methodist college that doesn't have religion professors?” asks one student.
Willimon and Hauerwas’s out-of-season words on pastoral care
Pastors coping with the pandemic need our encouragement, not our carping.