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My land acknowledgment
My family owns a residential plot in suburban Chicago. I decided to find out what used to be there.
A multitude of ways to love the earth
Mallory McDuff’s anthology centers non-White voices and women’s narratives in the climate justice conversation.
Reckoning with self-destruction
We all live in Oppenheimer’s world now, and it is one that constantly invents the Ethan Hunts and Indiana Joneses of our fantasies.
October 22, Ordinary 29A (Matthew 22:15–22)
I take seriously the absence of a denarius in Jesus’ own hand.
Delighting in whatever is lovely (Philippians 4:1-9)
Can we notice what is true and noble, even when it is also ordinary?
A story of water and faith
Abraham Verghese’s new novel tells an epic tale of a family of Thomas Christians in modern India.
Seeing Dante with Botticelli’s eyes
Joseph Luzzi tells the rich, entertaining story of the Renaissance artist’s renderings of a quintessentially medieval text.
Eyes of the heart
Mike has been blind since birth. He sees life more vividly than most of us.
A theology of ghosts
My sister talks to our dead mother. I am happy they both stand in the presence of love.
Grace without conquest
Art historian Matthew Milliner has written a groundbreaking history of a beloved icon’s role in imperial Christianity’s collapse.
October 15, 28A (Psalm 106:1–6, 19–23)
Where is the psalmist’s own voice in this communal confession and appeal?
The Psalm 19 test (Psalm 19)
How do we wade through the vast morass of different teachings and beliefs about the God of the Bible?
Marjorie Maddox’s capacious poetry
She can (and will) do anything with this English language she so clearly loves.
Can dead things live again?
When the widow in Luke 7 sees her son revived, she isn’t thinking about biology.