Elizabeth Palmer
What's new this Advent?
Four of the best new resources for individuals, congregations, and families
How Dove’s Nest trains churches to keep children safe
“Churches are places of high trust—and high risk.”
Boys will be like the boys they read about
Books can’t singlehandedly destroy toxic masculinity. But they can chip away at it.
How a tweet turned Eric Metaxas into my brother
It’s all fun and games until your political enemy calls you “dear sister in Christ.”
Trump's rotten fruit and my own
Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.
James Cone's theology is easy to like and hard to live
If Jesus is black, he's calling us to do a lot more than affirm the color of his skin.
Poetry and transience
National Poetry Month is over, but there's plenty of good poetry to get us through the next 11 months.
The work of reconstruction, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.
Of the many absurdities around race and hatred that still exist in our culture, Trump may be the least of them.
Crisis of faith
First Erin White fell in love with Christ. Then she fell in love with Chris.
The unadorned self, living forward, and a great lake of beer
What I found when I looked up today’s date in four daily devotional books
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Coffee table treasures
Most books are easy for me to give away. Not beautiful books about biblical manuscripts or Martin Luther’s legacy.
A child’s faith before and after Sandy Hook
Tain Gregory was new to Sandy Hook Elementary School when the mass shooting happened, but the faith that helped him respond had been a long time in the making.
Some bright spots in 2017
A year after the election, we decided to look for signs of hope. We found them all around us.
The Boston Declaration and God’s monstrous entourage
People do terrible things. So does the biblical God. Is there value in naming those things?
Theophany on the train
How I found the gospel while reading about an academic conference
A novel that shows the power of #MeToo
Winnie M Li’s story of sexual assault is hard to read. That’s precisely why it’s so important.
No innocent fable
Should I tell my first-grader about the racist, imperialist, and misogynist legacies I detect in the book she's reading?