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Can the world be saved by poetry?
I was skeptical. Then I heard a poet read one of his poems.
New $14 million fund supports historic congregations
The National Fund for Sacred Places aims to help churches raise funds, restore their buildings, and find new community partnerships.
How Paterson sidesteps the clichés embraced by La La Land
Escapism can be delightful. But artistic creation also uses the fodder of daily life.
The fast I chose
Giving up donuts for the sake of cholesterol didn’t bring me closer to God. But it did teach me something about sacrifice.
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.
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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.
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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.