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When abortion is mere abstraction
What’s missing from the debate is the wisdom of first-hand experience.
Billy Graham’s transatlantic brand
America’s pastor stepped into a historical moment framed by the Cold War and secularization.
Where our deep sadness and the world’s deep hunger meet
Sometimes vocation springs not from joy but from trauma and grief.
A prophetic model (Amos 7:1-17)
Christians struggle to be prophetic in the world. Amos could help.
Underlined words
As it tells the story of our time, the Century makes readers and writers of us all.
What I left out of my mother’s funeral sermon
I told the truth about her but not the whole truth.
We need to talk about climate change
Scientist Katharine Hayhoe recommends focusing on common ground and hope.
Black men I’ve mourned
I’ve preached more than 800 funeral sermons. Many of these deaths have marked me.
Maggie Nelson finds freedom in the emphatic middle
Her new essay collection examines how Americans thread the needle between care and constraint.