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May 16, Easter 7B (John 17:6–19)
Jesus’ high priestly prayer is a call to a new kind of knowing and loving.
Episode 5: Embodied and boundless | A conversation with Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
“Practicing to be a contemplative," says Zen priest Sensei Zenju, "you’re learning to be embodied and to be boundless at the same time.”
Woke corporations?
Unlike today’s Republican party, Delta and Coca-Cola are responsive to public opinion.
May 13, Ascension (Acts 1:1-11; Luke 24:44-53)
What we see reminds us of what we miss, and vice versa.
Jellyfish at prayer
Is V. velella a colony or an individual? When does sharedness dissolve into oneness?
Hip-hop artists Sho Baraka and Propaganda flip the script
Stanley Hauerwas says good theological writing makes the familiar strange.
Do we still need institutions?
Yes, says Yuval Levin. But only if they serve a formative function.
A civil rights pilgrimage through the eyes of Congolese refugee teenagers
We began to understand why James Baldwin called US history “more beautiful and more terrible than anyone has ever said about it.”
May 9, Easter 6B (John 15:9–17)
What would the insurance-mandated boundary trainings that I’ve attended make of Jesus’ intimacy with his disciples?
COVID and the faithful risks pastors have taken
This is a high-stakes time. Some churches need to take more creative risks than ever before.