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Episode 8: Pastor and activist Melissa Florer-Bixler, author of How to Have an Enemy
A conversation with pastor and activist Melissa Florer-Bixler about about L’Arche North Carolina, anti-Black racism, defunding the police, holy anger, Mary the first priest, Whiteness, and more
Paul’s call for mutual aid (13B) (2 Corinthians 8:7-15)
We all have needs—and abundance.
How I came to love embodied prayer
I tried it—and I began to experience God in places other than my head.
Living a simplified life in France
Eric Freeze and his family moved to Nice—in order to spend less and live better.
Will the looming fertility bust destroy religion?
As the global population ages, it’s unclear what will bind people to faith.
Honoring the Christians persecuted under Bolshevik rule requires knowing their stories
How Rod Dreher gets Russian history—and the American present—wrong
Seven things I learned by teaching a Me Too Bible class
Scripture is filled with sexual violence. So, we learned, are our own lives.
Rachel Gross wants to blur the distinction between Jewish culture and Jewish religion
Being Jewish goes beyond the synagogue.
How the midwives Shiphrah and Puah mock the violence of empire
They use Pharaoh’s tools to dismantle oppression.
July 18, Ordinary 16B (2 Samuel 7:1–14a)
God promises to build a bayit, a house. But not one with boundaries.
Episode 92: Fast Five
Matt and Adam talk about family, cars, and the brilliant idiocy of Fast Five
“Dad, why does Deuteronomy 20 talk about killing the boys and girls?”
My daughter wants to know. Even as a biblical scholar, I don’t have a good answer.
Drawing close to Howard Thurman
Two new books invite us to learn from what others have loved about the civil rights icon.