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March 10, Lent 4B (Numbers 21:4–9; John 3:14–21)
When John 3 came up I used to preach on the dangers of fixating on one verse. Now I cringe at that memory.
De-commodifying time
Jenny Odell argues that we need to get back in touch with our preindustrial sense of time.
Third spaces and more (John 2:13-22)
Churches often live in an uneasy relationship with their property.
Showing up for church when I don’t want to
When I show up, God shows up—although not always in the sermon.
Christian life in The School of Athens
My upbringing made me a Platonist. Motherhood made me an Aristotelian. I never left either behind.
Speaking of death
Christians have an opportunity to eschew euphemisms and talk honestly about mortality.
Pentecostals laboring in the field
Lloyd Barba shows how Mexican farmworkers established a viable life in the face of California’s industrial agriculture machine.
The women around Augustine with Kate Cooper (S3:E3)
“This is an enslaved girl in Africa in the fourth century. Just talk about lost voices. And yet this child is literally creating the theological groundwork for the greatest of Latin theologians”
In search of Rumi’s live heart
Looking for an Arabic translation of a favorite line, I found myself on a treasure hunt.
Too old to be president?
Critics of Biden’s memory slips fail to mention any of the positive traits associated with aging.
Social gospel heroes?
Janine Drake identifies ulterior motives in the church’s collaboration with labor in the early 20th century.
March 3, Lent 3B (John 2:13–22)
Whatever Jesus is attacking, it isn’t the practices of the people coming to the temple to worship.
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.