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Can incarceration ever be just?
Philosopher Tommie Shelby pushes me to question my abolitionist convictions.
Overshadowed by the Twelve
Holly Carey turns up the brightness on the most faithful disciples in the gospels: the women.
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
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.
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.”
