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Communion tears
In my 15 years as a pastor, I’ve seen a lot of watery eyes at the table.
For Simone Weil, philosophy was not merely academic
Robert Zaretsky offers a vivid picture of how truth telling made Weil’s life complicated.
What the stones have witnessed (Luke 19:28-40)
The biblical landscape is a stony one.
Tears are a gift from God
They put us in touch with essential things that we know to be dear or wrong.
John Boswell’s faith lit up a generation
My brother’s work paved the way for many LGBTQ Christians.
How harm reduction is winning the war against drug overdoses
Maia Szalavitz tells the story of a strategy that replaces criminalization with empathy.
Episode 6: Following the saints with Dan Koski
“You have to be willing to accept that if you call on this saint for help and guidance, he or she may call on you for challenges as well.”
I went to the first McDonald’s in Russia for the bathroom
As the Soviet Union crumbled, the West sent French fries.
Robert Pattinson gives us the Batman we need
He carries the hesitant masculinity of Twilight’s Edward Cullen in his body.
What kind of faith should Ketanji Brown Jackson have?
We seem to want public figures with inconsequential beliefs.
The mirror world under the sea
Millions of unknown species in our oceans inhabit a universe of storytelling and dreaming.
