Life of Faith
Vegetables that are fearfully and wonderfully made
My friend left me his CSA share for two weeks. It changed the way I look at labor.
Being salt
When I got into cooking, it changed the way I understand Jesus’ statement, “You are the salt of the earth.”
Clarissa and her flowers
Reading The Hours in my husband’s hospital room, I was stunned by the novel’s incarnational imagery.
Dear God, you can do better
Two Episcopal priests tell God exactly how they feel about being seriously ill.
The heart of the humanities
In a culture that too often values people simply for their labor, learning for learning’s sake is its own good.
A different kind of poverty memoir
Dana Trent’s heartbreaking and hilarious book eschews the conventional American rags-to-riches arc.
The hope I’ve arrived at
I used to put a positive spin on everything. The effort didn’t serve my children—or my own heart.
A posture of hope
No, everything is not fine. But we can help each other envision a better way.
Small creatures
“There’s a frog in our house!” My daughter and I said the words together, but only one of us was excited.
God cares nothing for our algorithms
Embracing the random can open us up to the agitations of the Holy Spirit.
The roots of Hebrew Roots
A small but growing movement of Christians believes fervently that Torah observance is for everyone.
The Christian lady preacher and the queer Jewish poet
If I could give every new pastor a gift in their first year of preaching, I’d give them a friend like Jessica Jacobs.
A harrowing novel about Christian boarding schools
In Margaret Verble’s Stealing, a Cherokee girl finds what she needs to survive an evil system.