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Murder of Baptist pastor in Myanmar brings new attention to ‘under-reported’ war
The fatal shooting of a Baptist pastor in Myanmar reflects an upsurge of civil war violence targeting Christians, Muslims, and other religious and ethnic minorities....
The wisdom of not knowing
The information age feels like an all-you-can-eat buffet. I’m stuffed.
Love and desolation: The story of Matushka Olga Michael with Meagan Saliashvili (S3:E7)
“Blessed Olga said, ‘God can create great beauty out of complete desolation.’”
In praise of church musicians
Great leaders of congregational song attend to the new community formed every time a church gathers.
Episode 38: Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio, author of The Not-Yet God
A conversation with Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio, author of The Not-Yet God, about creation, evolution, pantheism and panentheism, and more
New Catholic Spanish language record label seeks to catch up to Christian music industry
Taking a look at the Best Christian Album (Spanish Language) category at the Latin Grammys, and you might think the vast majority of Latino Christians in Latin America and the United States are eva...
March 31, Easter 1B (Mark 16:1–8)
Resurrection flies in the face of everything we know to be true.
Naps against capitalism
How can rest be a political act? Poet-theologian Tricia Hersey returns to this question often.
An anti-Christian lawsuit
When Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a suit against a Catholic volunteer organization in El Paso, he went against his own church’s statement of faith.
Confronting difference in a spirit of peace (John 12:12-16)
Jesus’ last week in Jerusalem is full of confrontation.
March 29, Good Friday (John 18:1–19:42)
On the cross, the God-man who has repeatedly declared “I am” now begins to say that he is not.
March 28, Maundy Thursday (John 13:1–17, 31b–35)
How might the church’s history have been different if foot washing had caught on more widely?
White Christian nationalism’s heritage of extremism
Bradley Onishi brings his scholarship and his personal experience together to analyze where the church went wrong.
PCUSA national staff celebrate their inner child on Mister Rogers Day
Wednesday’s chapel service celebrating Mister Rogers Day drew out the inner child among the national staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as they celebrated the many gifts given by Fred Rogers...
Our unseen companions
“Angels, saints, and ancestors are real presences that are not visible to us in our linear, rational mind,” says Abbey of the Arts founder Christine Valters Paintner.
The story never meant to be told: The suppressed history of African American religious women with Shannen Dee Williams (S3:E6)
“When confronted with the silenced past, the greatest responsibility of the historian—and the most radical thing any person can do—is to tell the story that was never meant to be told.”
Seeking the Divine in the secular age
The modern mystics profiled in Bernard McGinn’s new book don’t experience ecstatic visions, supernatural miracles, or paranormal phenomena.
Why do you want to see?
The Zone of Interest interrogates the desire to bear witness that animates the Holocaust movie as a genre.