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Tim Brown
Tim Brown is an ELCA pastor, a writer, and a development officer for the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
A black pastor writes to the white church about its complicity in oppression
Lenny Duncan’s letter is full of hope and fury, love and lament—like Paul’s epistles.
July 31, 2019
Baby steps toward Christian unity
Allen Hilton profiles churches that are uniting people across ideological differences.
February 28, 2019
Mary Oliver broke my heart
The poet helped me to realize how little I knew about a life observed.
January 17, 2019
The church's holy, subversive possessions
Ben Dueholm offers a humble apologetics—of faithful actions, not beliefs.
July 31, 2018
Decent folks next door
Does democracy create good neighbors? Or is it the other way around?
September 7, 2016
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