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The great multitude (Revelation 7:9-17)
As theophanies go, this one is oddly comforting.
The essential challenge of anti-Judaism in the Bible
Do antisemitic appeals to the Bible always constitute an abuse of scripture? Would that it were so simple.
Christian educator James Tebbe receives high-level civilian honor in Pakistan
Analogous to the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the award honors Tebbe’s leadership at Forman Christian College in Lahore.
Tressie McMillan Cottom asks who black women’s voices are for
Cottom interrogates her own story loudly enough for others to hear themselves in it.
Take & read: New books in theology
To speak words of grace, we must first name the powers and principalities that hold us captive.
Put Ijeoma Oluo and Crystal Fleming on your antiracism reading list
Two new books offer an education—with grace and humor.
A radically new vision of mainline church leadership
Helping people think differently in changing times
Take & read: New books in Old Testament
Climate catastrophe, economic inequality, and the way we treat our dead
American involvement in organized religion continues to wane
The data on the decline in church membership shares “almost exactly the same pattern of ups and downs” as engagement in secular civil society, said political scientist Robert Putnam.
Episode 63: The Biggest Little Farm
This week, Adam and Matt talk with Nate Stucky about farming, harmony, theology, and the new film The Biggest Little Farm.
Jean Vanier and the gift of L’Arche
Vanier found fullness of life in those snatched from despair and placed in homes based on mutuality, respect, and care.
A white, southern pastor takes a hard look at the sin of racism
“It’s not that Southerners don’t get racial issues. We just don’t get them right.”
A chaplain, his cerebral palsy, and the philosophy that guides him
Stephen Faller’s series of wise reflections on being alive
May 30, Ascension (Luke 24:44-53)
It can be excruciating to long for something just out of reach.
Rachel Held Evans’s labor of love
Rachel’s work changed the trajectory of American Christianity, but she was always grounded and generous.
The point of talking about reparations is to reckon with generations of racial injustice
HR 40 is about more than money. It’s about grappling with history.
The miracles of Julie Yip-Williams’s life and death
A cancer memoir about a life sustained by improbable events
4 gifts Rachel Held Evans gave us
Rachel grasped the true arc of Christianity: that death comes before life, that doubt comes before belief, that the gospel comes to us in a world that is sick.
Rachel Held Evans, Christian writer and speaker, dies at age 37
Evans’s books A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and Inspired traced the evolution of her faith.