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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.
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.
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.
Praying the hours with W. H. Auden
The poet’s Horae Canonicae sequence is an underappreciated spiritual classic.
Moltmann the teacher
Studying theology with him offered me new possibilities for justice and abundant life.