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From comedy club to convent
How an insecure stand-up comic became a moderately famous Episcopal nun
Collective punishment
The scriptural concept of collective blessing challenges the pervasive logic that seems to be holding this country hostage.
December 28, Christmas 1A (Matthew 2:13-23)
The incarnation means God enters the world as it stands, not as we wish it to be.
All nativity scenes are political
The anti-ICE and “Christ in the rubble” nativity scenes are also theologically profound—and fully in keeping with the best Christmas traditions.
Name him Jesus (Matthew 1:18-25)
It was an ordinary, everyday name, one that dozens of other boys in Nazareth shared.
God in the particular (Luke 2:1-20)
The Christmas story is scandalous because of its specificity.
Playing to lose
I witnessed the sports betting empire ruin one man’s life. It’s coming for millions more.
December 24 and 25, Nativity A (Luke 2:1–14 (15-20)
It’s likely that Jesus was born in a cave. Does that make any difference?
A lethal article of faith
Veteran journalist William Kole sets out to understand White evangelical devotion to the Second Amendment.
The poverty of gossip
It’s not just that it’s sadistic. It also lacks aesthetic or psychological imagination.
The mother load
In Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence’s character seems to have intuited an invisible straitjacket of maternal expectations, and she is desperate to shake it off.
The monsters we make
Historian Surekha Davies exposes humanity’s long-standing practice of turning difference into monstrosity.
December 21, Advent 4A (Matthew 1:18-25)
Birthing takes a village. Our Christmas pageants recognize this truth.
The bad king
Nimrod is the biblical archetype of the corrupt leader obsessed with his own power.
Getting in shape to move (Isaiah 35:1-10)
“Make firm the feeble knees,” the prophet calls.