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There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment
Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of evil.
A time to endure
As we approach another Trump presidency, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ecclesiastes.
What White Christians did to Black Charlotte
Greg Jarrell explores how one congregation in his city took advantage of racist urban renewal policies.
Divine silence
A Quaker colleague taught me how stillness exercises agency, how it acts upon worshipers.
November 24, Reign of Christ B (John 18:33–37)
What does it mean to have Christ as a king?
Finding rest (Hebrews 10:11-25)
Even as we seek practical solutions to our problems, we cannot afford to abandon the beliefs and spiritual practices that undergird us.
Can scientists make a universe from nothing?
“Empty space is never really, truly empty,” says science writer Zeeya Merali.
Re-enchanting reading
Craig Tichelkamp asks whether our best hope for restoring a culture of reading might lie centuries in the past.
Ancestral blessings
I attended a talk by a pastor who begins services by asking, “Who do you bring into worship with you?”
The Wild Robot asks what makes us human
We are animals that need to overcome our instincts, robots that need to overcome our rationality.
A fictional reservation that feels real
Amy Frykholm’s novel creates a fascinating interplay of Native people and settlers whose lives are complicated by intergenerational trauma.
More than eulogies
French rabbi Delphine Horvilleur reflects on 11 funerals to paint a vibrant picture of Jewish life.
November 17, Ordinary 33B Mark 13:1-8
Jesus tells the disciples a hard truth: nothing you see here is going to last.
Stretched between life’s verses
The future is scary: we simply don’t know, and it flies toward us anyway.
Why is the widow poor? (Mark 12:38-44)
So many stewardship sermons use the woman of Mark 12—lamentably—as an example of the kind of generosity to which we all should aspire.
