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The Episcopal Church takes steps to improve protocols for bishop misconduct
After months of allegations that it lacks a credible process for disciplining its bishops, the Episcopal Church is taking steps to make it simpler to report misconduct, Presiding Bishop Michael Cur...
Texas attorney general moves to shut down Catholic migrant shelters
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued a volun...
The very real sham marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane’s remake is in some ways the inverse of the 2005 original.
A lament psalm without lament (Psalm 22:23-31; Mark 8:31-38)
Lament psalms typically move to trust at some point, but reading only those verses feels strange in Lent.
Spending Lent with people in recovery
In the company of church members in recovery from addiction, I’m feeling more open to the doctrine of original sin.
Nuns alleging abuse by former Jesuit Marko Rupnik plead with Francis for investigation
Ex-nuns who say they suffered abuse at the Loyola religious community co-founded by former Jesuit priest Marko Rupnik asked Pope Francis during an emotional news conference Wednesday to investigate...
The Samaritan Woman’s Well of Interpretation with Caryn Reeder (S3:E2)
“Sin is not part of the story.”
Repairing the redlined body of Christ
My church wanted to participate in our city’s reparations efforts. We began in our archives.
Episode 37: Gender studies scholar Susan Shaw, coauthor of Surviving God
A conversation with Gender studies scholar Susan Shaw about sexual abuse, images of God, joy, and more
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What is forgiveness?
Myisha Cherry and Matthew Ichihashi Potts each challenge a new American mythology.
February 25, Lent 2B (Mark 8:31–38)
What a roller coaster for the disciples: They are following the Messiah! And doing so will cost them everything.
Faith, hope, love, and AI
Our different responses to artificial intelligence point to different stories—and different Christian virtues.
Holy attachments
During the pandemic, I went six months without touching another human being. I felt starved.
Ten ways Christians can criticize Israel that aren’t antisemitic
Since October 7, many well-intentioned statements have undercut progressive Christians’ moral high ground by invoking antisemitic tropes. It’s an avoidable problem.
In Gaza, water is life
Fresh water was scarce even before the war. Now the situation is dire.
School dress codes that do harm
One Kansas school board has recognized the unintended consequences and changed course.
There’s Something about Mary Magdalene, with Elizabeth Schrader Polczer and Diana Butler Bass (S3:E1)
“What if the text was changed to suppress Mary Magdalene as not only the first witness of Jesus in John 20, but as the Christological confessor, which would make her a central character in the Gospel of John? Not one of several women, but a central character.”
We are all going to die
During my first several hours administering ashes as a hospital chaplain, I kept cringing.