Features
I was a scribe for the Chicago Illuminated Scripture Project
Billy Graham and Barack Obama each offered a pastoral voice in a time of tragedy
What we lost when the funeral home replaced the home funeral
Grieving my daughter’s suicide in a time of wider grief
My dad died from COVID-19. My grief is a lonely one.
How do we grieve the hundreds of thousands of people the COVID-19 pandemic has killed?
Voices
Isaac S. Villegas
Mary’s song reveals her politics of mercy
I think Jesus learned his prophetic ministry from his mother.
Kathryn Reklis
Ted Lasso is the soccer coach we all need
What if kindness, honesty, and compassion were valued more than winning?
Books
The Old Testament, the Tanakh, and the Hebrew Bible
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text.
Journeying with Father Dan and a coyote along the via negativa
Daniel Hornsby’s debut novel has a wonderful road-trippy feeling.
When religion thrived in New York
Jon Butler’s dazzling study of faith and practice in a 20th-century metropolis