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The Hebrew Bible’s map(s) of the land of Israel
God promises Israel to the Jews 16 times—and each time, the borders are different.
For all peoples
Judaism once had a universalist vision, long before Christianity emerged as a distinct religion. What happened to it?
Come and see and live (John 4:5-42)
A spring of living water is not easily controlled.
The types of people we are
Our personal passions feel unique, distinguished. Most of the time they aren’t.
Amid cruelty and oppression, can the church be faithful at human scale?
We are all being formed not only by what we profess but by what our bodies learn to tolerate.
It’s not about the building
A pastor’s call is to follow Jesus beyond budgets, roofs, and steeples.
What a society needs to survive
Yuval Noah Harari’s history of information networks emphasizes two crucial characteristics: truth telling and self-correction.
Do not be deceived
Paul’s words to the Galatians have taken on a haunting relevance in an age of deepfakes and propaganda.
I dreamed I made my mentor cry
He was giving an academic talk on character education, and I asked a question I would never ask in real life.
A novel about the real mother of Jesus
In Kaethe Schwehn’s imaginative tale, the lives of Yeshua, his Greek birth mother Salome, and his adoptive parents Mari and Yosef drip with the brutal and the beautiful.
The common good is something we practice face-to-face
The incarnation pulls my attention away from ideology and toward my neighbor.
March 8, Lent 3A (John 4:5–42)
Jesus’ opening approach to the woman at the well is one that confesses his own need.
Teaching and learning (John 3:1-17)
If Nicodemus wants to be a “teacher of Israel,” he needs to let go of his need to have all the answers—and he must be willing to learn.
Remembering not to forget
At their best, theology and history are complementary tools that enact remembering as a sacred practice.
The bard of Gen Z
Cameron Winter and his band, Geese, make music that explores the dread and social alienation of my generation.