body of Christ
The skin of Christ
The church is a body: scarred and punctured but feeling its way through the world.
Episode 13: Community developer and editor Chris Smith, author of How the Body of Christ Talks
A conversation with community developer and editor Chris Smith about the Englewood Review of Books, spirituality for the journey, the messiness of life, and more
What it means to be a body in Hong Kong
The protests confront us with a difficult question.
Seeing disability through a lens of wonder
Brian Brock’s book is both academic and deeply personal.
Body shaming tears apart the body of Christ
The thin cannot say to the fat, "I have no need of you."
God's love, our bodies
Turned toward one another in worship, we experience the grace of God's gaze.
The ministry of the risen Lord
The one who puts all things under his feet is doing something in the world.
The manna story (John 6:24-35; Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15; Ephesians 4:1-16)
What is manna? Is it a Hebrew pun on mah hu, or as Everett Fox suggests, “Whaddayacallit”? Is it mountains of sweet insect excrement, as proposed by some scholars, or the stuff of legend?
Precious stones: Acts 7:55-60; Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16
On a recent visit to Washington, D.C., I saw the Hope diamond at the National Museum of Natural History. It’s odd to think that a large piece of carbon, refined by millions of years of compression and cut by human hands, could draw such crowds. Yet people are continually huddled around the display case, which is wired with numerous sensors for security.