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The grace of holding my dying father’s hand during the pandemic
The word contagion comes from the Latin words for “with” and “touch.”
July 11, Ordinary 15B (2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19)
The gap in the lectionary’s account of the return of the Ark of the Covenant echoes a pattern we have seen too often in our country.
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the words quake and scrap.
Karl Barth’s wisdom for fathers (and mothers, and all children of God)
Before you had a human parent, you had a perfect one.
Influential United Methodist bishop Daniel C. Arichea Jr. dies at 87
(Photo courtesy of the United Methodist Council of Bishops)
Lucilla Goodman and other ordinary saints
Her epitaph, “She hath done what she could,” says a lot.
The wild kingdom (11B) (Mark 4:26-34)
When predictable things are replaced by elusive ones
How Princeton Seminary’s slavery audit created moments of unlikely intimacy
We need structural change. We also need to be willing to be personally undone.
Where is my love to go?
Imagine God asking that question. You’ll get an insight into God’s heart.
I want more for Deesha Philyaw’s church ladies
I want a sequel where they don’t have to hide their sexuality.
Where my faith and my work as a scientist meet
It’s difficult to study the phylogenetic tree and still feel lonely.
July 4, Ordinary 14B (2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10)
Whatever else David is, he is recognizably human and not a fairy-tale king.