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Why am I so drawn to these evangelical couple vloggers?
They’re selling marriage as a promise and a return on investment. It’s both misguided and genuinely appealing.
Delores Williams’s voice in the wilderness
At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.
Listen to the survivors
Some churches are starting the long process of reckoning with their role in the horrors of Indigenous boarding schools.
My father’s last decision
On Christmas morning, he told us: he was considering suicide.
I hear no voice
Prayers for Children and the apophatic tradition
Surviving Hillcrest
Letta Cartlidge created a group for missionary kids who’d attended her boarding school in Jos, Nigeria. The stories of abuse poured in.
My fertility journey with Mary
Navigating agency and surrender with my namesake, the mother of God
Reading The Waste Land as it turns 100
T. S. Eliot’s epic poem is a masterpiece—but what do we do with its view of classical Western tradition?
Who owns the heavens?
With the space race outsourced to astropreneurs, the final frontier is for sale to the wealthy few.
A very long discernment
Luke is in a maximum security prison. He wants to be an Episcopal priest.
Should we avoid liturgical language of light and dark?
While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.
A clergy mental health crisis
The stress of the past few years has brought many to the breaking point.
A troubling new coalition in Israel
How will Netanyahu and his new allies govern? And what will become of the Israeli left?
The sacred relics of a lifetime of ministry
Marilyn wasn’t sure she could stomach the sight of a truck carting 56 years of her husband’s work to the dump.
Yemen’s children and America’s oil
Our role in the proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Baldwin the exorcist
He wrote to free the heart from hatred and despair.
Returning to a book that shaped my imagination
Is there a word for nostalgia tinged with trauma?
Persia’s first American missionaries
Justin Perkins and Charlotte Bass suffered multiple losses during their missionary years. Was it worth it?
On Native land
Land acknowledgments can do a lot of good—if they’re rooted in solid process and relationships.
A liturgy in the borderlands
Alvaro Enciso plants crosses where migrants have died, to keep them from disappearing into oblivion.