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Planting garlic at the cusp of the seasons
All hands join in to get 40,000 pungent cloves into the ground.
Good news for the rich and poor (Luke1:46b–55)
What a relief it might be to middle-class America to be sent away empty.
Awake and watching this Advent
We need the prophets to unmask power’s seductions.
When liberation theology failed
How a blunder in Argentina can teach us today.
Incarnation in the desert
If God can be born in the wilderness, God can be born in the dry places of our lives.
Bearing God in Advent
As I lifted the chalice, the baby began to play soccer under my ribs.
January 6, Epiphany of the Lord: Matthew 2:1–12
If people can approach the faith without thinking they already know what it is, they might hear the good news for themselves.
What (some) Trump supporters were thinking—and feeling
A Berkeley academic empathizes with antigovernment Louisianans.
The giver and the gift: A Christian's delight in things
If the world is a gift, then all the things to which you relate—and many to which you don't—are also God's relation to you.
What's at stake in the next four years
Avoid the media distractions. Focus on collective responses to Trump.
The cry of Advent
Even popular holiday movies echo the message of the season: repent!
J. K. Rowling’s wizards in the Jazz Age
Fantastic Beasts diagnoses how rising fear leads to demonizing others.