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A fresh translation of Nelly Sachs’s later poems
For Sachs, flight is multivalent: her flight from the Nazis, any refugee’s flight from oppression, God’s flight from God.
Traveling to find home
Tom Fate’s essays present an ethically complicated journey of discovery.
Persia’s first American missionaries
Justin Perkins and Charlotte Bass suffered multiple losses during their missionary years. Was it worth it?
October 16, Ordinary 29C (Luke 18:1–8)
Luke says this story is about prayer. But the widow keeps asking for justice.
Ordinary people (Luke 17:11-19)
There is nothing wrong with the nine. There is something extraordinary about the one.
The Christian God is a queer God
I cannot begin to imagine anything queerer than the doctrine of the Trinity.
Post-evangelical healing
Charles Marsh writes beautifully about the anxiety instilled by his childhood faith—and the therapy it took to overcome it.
On Native land
Land acknowledgments can do a lot of good—if they’re rooted in solid process and relationships.
When the Four Horsemen ride again
Climate change will have religious consequences, especially in the Global South.
A liturgy in the borderlands
Alvaro Enciso plants crosses where migrants have died, to keep them from disappearing into oblivion.
October 9, Ordinary 28C (Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7)
It’s not that Babylon was backward. But it wasn’t home.
Grandparenting with faith
Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter are grounded and experienced guides.
Is Sinéad O’Connor a secular saint?
A new documentary positions the fiery iconoclast as a prophet ahead of her time.