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Refuge (Psalm 2; Matthew 17:1-9)
What is Jesus’ vocation among us in the time of No Kings?
What does solidarity require?
Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor offer a dizzying tour of the concept across geography and history.
Bad Bunny and us
What we witnessed at the Super Bowl was less a performance than an invitation.
Blot out our offenses
Ash Wednesday offers a counterpoint to every tendency that aims to hide facets of our life from God.
February 18, Ash Wednesday (Joel 2:1–2, 12–17; Psalm 51:1–17; 2 Corinthians 5:20b–6:10; Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21)
Who can sort out the ironies and challenges in these four texts? Where is the joy in this kind of salvation?
Formed for solidarity
Each year, Episcopalians gather in Alabama to enact a liturgy remembering Jonathan Daniels and other civil rights martyrs.
A procession against authoritarianism
“We honor people’s dignity,” says Todd Lippert, a lead organizer of the Palm Sunday Path. “That’s what we do; it’s who we are.”
The lives of wild seeds
Mayan seed guardians and Mennonite farmers are working to recognize their interdependence—with each other and with the land.
American Canaan
Biblical scholar Daniel Hawk shows how White American scripts of Indigenous conquest mirror the book of Joshua.
Seeing with clarity
You can live a long time off a vision like the transfiguration. But there is much else in this world we must look at, from which we dare not avert our eyes.
February 15, Transfiguration A (Matthew 17:1–9)
A new beginning was dawning. Would I lean in and listen?
The aroma of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:1-16)
Paul is very interested in the sense of scent.
Trained to disappear
Anna Rollins’s memoir examines purity culture, disordered eating, and the cost of being a good Christian girl.
Morality requires other people
When we substitute personal interest for the public good, trust begins to disappear in our society.
The sacred testimony of Black joy
It’s a fugitive act, a form of resistance that creates freedom inside captivity.