Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year 3, NL)

The annunciation is a story about a woman bearing forth the better things from the baser.

The traditional annunciation story bothers me even more than the word handmaid.

I probably shouldn’t treat my own son like he’s the Messiah. Imagine the pressure.

Vida Dutton Scudder, an early 20th-century radical, points Christians to solidarity and martyrdom.

What if we did asystematic theology?

Navigating agency and surrender with my namesake, the mother of God

If anyone is expecting a lullaby, they better think again.

Abortion is about real lives enmeshed in the realities of home and work and wages and debt.

My Grandma Violet was the black sheep of our family. I think of her when I pray.

It’s hard to believe in an enchanted world.

Biblical scholar Tony Keddie shows how the conservative movement enlisted the Bible to help its cause.