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Is being adopted or fostered always traumatic?
Jenn Ranter Hook and Joshua Hook say yes—and offer families concrete tools to support children.
July 2, Ordinary 13A (Psalm 13)
I hear the psalmist’s words on the lips of the unhoused. How long, O Lord?
Episode 29: Zack Hunt, author of Godbreathed
A conversation with Zack Hunt about his book Godbreathed, God as She, imperfections/contradictions in the Bible, and much more
The radicalism of Azusa Street
Keri Day places the 1906 revival at the intersection of White evangelicalism, American capitalism, and racism.
Welcome to the commodity biopic
These movies about influential consumer objects aren’t really origin stories at all.
Sing a rights-cleared song to the Lord
“Each report we receive at ONE LICENSE turns into a royalty payment,” says Brenna Cronin, “and those payments are someone’s livelihood.”
Domestic poverty and who it serves
Matthew Desmond unties the knot of being poor in the US—and shows the rest of us that we hold the strings.
The book editor who inadvertently helped empty America’s pews
Stephen Prothero’s biography of Eugene Exman reveals how the bestsellers he acquired taught people to be spiritual but not religious.
June 25, Ordinary 12A (Romans 6:1b–11)
False security is a lovely, loathsome thing.
Holy wild card (Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19)
Why Howard Thurman dedicated his autobiography to a stranger
Transformed by the dog I never wanted
She’s helping me answer the question, “Why this life instead of another?”
Reading scripture through the lens of nature
Daniel Cooperrider understands the Bible as an outdoor book, open to the sky.