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Billy Graham and Barack Obama each offered a pastoral voice in a time of tragedy
We need someone to speak to our moment, too.
A letter to the congregation (Reign of Christ A; Ephesians 1:15-23)
Ephesians could be a template for a sermon in the style of a pastoral letter.
Journeying with Father Dan and a coyote along the via negativa
Daniel Hornsby’s debut novel has a wonderful road-trippy feeling.
What we lost when the funeral home replaced the home funeral
Death rituals used to happen in our houses. What if we brought them back?
George H. W. Bush’s letter to Bill Clinton was a model of respect and solidarity
What will Donald Trump leave for Joe Biden?
Grieving my daughter’s suicide in a time of wider grief
My years of experience as an undertaker didn’t make it easier.
When religion thrived in New York
Jon Butler’s dazzling study of faith and practice in a 20th-century metropolis
My dad died from COVID-19. My grief is a lonely one.
I’m the only person he loved the way he loved me.
How do we grieve the hundreds of thousands of people the COVID-19 pandemic has killed?
We posed this question to five writers.
The joy of what kind of master? (Matthew 25: 14-30; 33A)
This master's ways are celebrated by the world, not by Jesus.
Shattering the myth of the first Thanksgiving
The Wampanoags shared the gifts of the land. The colonists responded with greed and ingratitude.