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Did Jesus tell us to pray for our enemies?
Monday night meal plan
My father’s last decision
Who owns the heavens?
A very long discernment
A clergy mental health crisis
A troubling new coalition in Israel
The sacred relics of a lifetime of ministry
Yemen’s children and America’s oil
Voices
Jonathan Tran
Giving disappointment its due
Some of our dreams won’t be fulfilled. While this may be a mercy, that’s no consolation.
Yolanda Pierce
Believing in the future
Everything I learn about science fills me with spiritual wonder.
Julian DeShazier
Our holy, human bodies
To build the Beloved Community, we need to think and talk and act differently about bodies.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Our living waters are struggling to breathe
River baptisms are becoming a casualty of polluted waters.
Alejandra Oliva
A busload of migrants were told something was waiting for them in Chicago
It was our job to be that something.
Samuel Wells
Understanding our dependencies
Our cost of living is about far more than the price of essential goods.
Books
Creation and new creation
A collection of essays invites artists and
theologians into conversation.
In the dance with technology, who leads?
Jacques Ellul diagnosed the problem. Paul Patton and Robert Woods offer some solutions.
A 21st-century Polish epic
Based on historical events, Olga Tokarczuk’s massive novel is simultaneously heartbreaking and comic.
A biography of Psalm 91
The deeper Philip Jenkins takes us, the more layered and fascinating the story becomes.
The great and strange John Donne
Katherine Rundell’s biography offers something new: she matches the poet’s energy with her own.
Another look at the 1619 Project
I approached the project’s new anthology with some skepticism. Its contents quickly dispelled my doubts.
After growth
Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we need to live with less stuff—and way less people.
Departments
Doreen R. Martinez and Ronald J. Martinez’s Santa Maria de la Paz
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