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Our microbes are Legion
My friend Angie’s life is crippled by compulsive acts of decontamination.
Jesus gives his initial sermon (Matthew 5:1–2)
The preacher is still green! Maybe we'll hear something hopeful.
Distracted by our own devices
I’ve become the sort of person who checks her phone constantly. I did not have to go this way.
On social media arguments in the Trump era
Is it worth the time to engage with people who are convinced their version of reality is right?
Christ the artist, we the portfolio
We are God’s artifacts—beautiful, incomplete, and mysterious.
Why more education can't block the criminalizing gaze at black bodies
I am a black man, and will always be so. Therefore, when I move about in the United States people first see my blackness and not my education. This means ongoing vulnerability because my blackness still is interpreted as criminal through a racialized lens.
What's in your bottle?
Wine is a good gift from God. Coca-Cola is not. (But is it really that simple?)
Marching and loving
As I marched alongside sisters, mothers, and daughters, I remembered how my religious upbringing robbed me of my ability to love.
Holiness in every drop
Judith Schwartz and Michael E. Webber each call attention to the challenges facing the water over which the Spirit broods.
Whited sepulchers or living stones?
Many churches have signs declaring that all are welcome. But are their buildings really inviting to the community around them?
At the deathbed of a man who cared for others
Every week, Cameron visited the lonely and afflicted. Now I’m visiting him.
Obama's unprecedented voice
No president knew the literature and religion of America better—not even Lincoln.
A multiracial family’s questions and fears
This Is Us depicts the dangers of life alone and the complications of life together.
A call to change careers (Matthew 4:12-23)
There was certainly nothing wrong with doing what I did before.
The call to moral resistance
Trump isn’t Hitler. Still, the Confessing Church models how we might respond to the new president.
A feel-good story's power and limits
There is a danger in responding to a film like Hidden Figures by congratulating ourselves on how far we’ve come.