The slow work of dialogue
For 20 years, Mennonite scholars from North America and Shi’a scholars from Iran have met periodically to build bridges.
Books
Edwards for all of us
Reading scripture through the experience of disability
A refugee’s lonely heart
De-commodifying time
In This Issue
March 17, Lent 5B (John 12:20–33)
To forgive is exclusively divine
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A holy fool with chocolate
My evangelical feminist friend Letha
Edwards for all of us
Voices
Philip Jenkins
William Guthrie’s weird Christianity
The rector of St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery brought the church into relationship with the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1920s.
Alejandra Oliva
Annie Dillard in spring
Each March, I find my thoughts returning to Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Jonathan Tran
Days of wanting
My family didn’t want to go to America at all; we left Vietnam on pain of death.
Yolanda Pierce
Showing up for church when I don’t want to
When I show up, God shows up—although not always in the sermon.
Rachel Mann
Speaking of death
Christians have an opportunity to eschew euphemisms and talk honestly about mortality.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Spending Lent with people in recovery
In the company of church members in recovery from addiction, I’m feeling more open to the doctrine of original sin.