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January 4, 2021

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Guest Post

10 guidelines for pastoral care during the coronavirus outbreak

How can we accompany people through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death?
by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed
March 10, 2020

First Words

Churches obsessed with their right to reopen are missing the point

Genuine Christian faith is larger than the US Constitution.
by Peter W. Marty
May 18, 2020

Opinion

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Why are so many white Christians suddenly standing up for racial justice?

It might help that our pews aren’t available to sit in and pray.
by Alan Sherouse
June 15, 2020

First Person

The pandemic calls for closed hymnals

Forgoing congregational singing as a spiritual discipline
by L. Roger Owens
July 20, 2020

Opinion

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Why my church is done singing David Haas’s songs

It’s not because we don’t believe in grace.
by Melissa Florer-Bixler
August 28, 2020

Features

A church returns land to American Indians

“This is decolonized land,” a young woman said. “This is a liberated zone.”
by Terra Brockman
March 3, 2020

Critical Essay

It’s 1933, and Franklin Graham is German theologian Paul Althaus

A limited but troubling historical analogy
by Björn Krondorfer
October 22, 2020

Interview

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Being church while the neighborhood burns

“There’s a fire that cannot be extinguished except by justice.”
Elizabeth Palmer interviews Ingrid C. A. Rasmussen and Angela Khabeb
June 3, 2020

How My Mind Has Changed

Finding God outside the church walls

The Spirit is God’s wild card, played over and over again when old forms fail.
by Barbara Brown Taylor
July 9, 2020

How My Mind Has Changed

Caught up in God

Early on, I got caught up in the logic of the Spirit—and in the steady beat of black life.
by Willie James Jennings
May 19, 2020

Critical Essay

White supremacy is a script we’re given at birth

It’s written in our flesh and rehearsed throughout history.
by Reggie Williams
September 15, 2020

Recommendations

Whose problem is clergy burnout?

Training in healthy ministry for pastors—and congregations
by Tracey Dawson
November 5, 2020

First Person

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I don’t forgive the man who murdered my cousin DePayne at Mother Emanuel

To insist on a narrative of forgiveness is dehumanizing and violent. It goes against the very nature of lament.
by Waltrina N. Middleton
June 16, 2020

Opinion

The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the myth of self-reliance

The people we deem invisible are holding us together right now.
by Angela Denker
April 6, 2020

Books

In Review: 
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How dying churches abuse pastors

Gene Fowler examines why traumatized congregations so often attack their leaders.
by Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner April 23, 2020

First Person

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The pandemic has made us unintentional monastics

We are urged into the desert of retreat, and we are afraid.
by Lucila Crena
April 14, 2020

Faith Matters

I don’t have a personal relationship with Jesus

I experience God through the embodied community of faith—and I miss it.
by Debie Thomas
October 2, 2020

Reflection

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On the spirituality of quarantine

How can we be “witnesses to the ends of the earth” right now? I have found some help from St. Benedict and St. Gregory.
by M. Craig Barnes
May 8, 2020

First Person

A liberal daughter discusses White privilege with her conservative dad

What would happen if we listened to each other in love?
by Teri McDowell Ott
October 27, 2020

Opinion

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What Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination doesn’t mean

Don’t bother looking for the political significance of the Supreme Court nominee’s Catholicism. There isn’t any.
by Benjamin J. Dueholm
September 28, 2020

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