Rachel’s work changed the trajectory of American Christianity, but she was always grounded and generous.

Evans’s books A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and Inspired traced the evolution of her faith.

“We are all created equal,” said the pastor of the Presbyterian church where the 19-year-old shooter is a member.

“What was attacked was Sri Lanka’s strained but still living tradition of inter-religious and inter-ethnic cooperation and friendship,” wrote one NGO leader.

Before I could say the customary words, she reached for the pottery chalice and took drink after drink.

A 21-year-old white man faces hate crimes and arson charges for the church fires, and a white supremacist symbol was spray-painted at the Highlander Center.

Our spiritual lives are like kintsugi pottery—mended with gold leaf along the cracks.

We’re preconditioned for self-gain and not for self-sacrifice. We need God’s help not only to do better but to want to do better.

In a world of whittled attention spans, perhaps the greatest gift I can offer my children is also the simplest.

Tsunetomo and Thurman both say death is not to be feared for those who understand their purpose in life.