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Grace and peace (Ephesians 1:3-14)
It’s hard to greet people with a blessing without sounding ostentatiously pious.
Phoning home
God, like an attuned parent, hears not just the words we say but also the hidden parts of our hearts.
How a perfect storm sent church insurance rates skyrocketing
John Parks was taking his first sabbatical in 40 years of ministry when he got a call from his church’s accountant with some bad news....
How roads hurt animals
Ben Goldfarb’s book on road ecology has expanded my understanding of what makes a livable city—and world.
The souls of Jamel Brinkley’s stories
Brinkley has a storyteller’s gift for revealing characters and the connections between them.
OncoMouse and me
A genetically engineered animal helped me rethink the imago Dei. It might also save my life.
Judge rules against Texas Attorney General Paxton in campaign against migrant shelters
An El Paso, Texas, district court judge ruled July 2 that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had violated the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable government searc...
July 14, Ordinary 15B (Mark 6:14–29)
Who knows what took place in Herod’s guilty heart after John’s death?
A church politics of nondomination
Liberal Anglicans and Methodists often face a tension between LGBTQ inclusion and anti-colonialism. But we don’t have to choose.
For the first time in a century, the Holy Land has no chief rabbi
In a historic moment, Israel’s two chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, left office on Sunday with no clear successors elected in their stead, leaving the posts vacant for the first time sinc...
PCUSA votes to divest from Israel bonds
The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Monday to divest from Israel bonds and begin the process of encouraging two companies it believes are contributing to human rights abu...
Jihyun Oh elected Stated Clerk of the PCUSA general assembly
In a 420-2 vote, Jihyun Oh was elected and then installed as the next stated clerk of the Pres...
Self-evident truths?
What may have been obvious to Thomas Jefferson was probably not obvious to those he enslaved.
Understanding Czesław Miłosz
Eva Hoffman, a fellow exile from Poland, writes about the Nobel-winning author like no one else could.
Climate catastrophe is here
Swaths of US land are becoming uninsurable, even uninhabitable.
July 7, Ordinary 14B (Mark 6:1–13)
The disciples want to know who Jesus is. The people from his hometown do not.
Reaching out (Mark 5:21-43)
The Gospel of Mark tells the story of a precarious moment.