Life of Faith
What does solidarity require?
Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor offer a dizzying tour of the concept across geography and history.
Blot out our offenses
Ash Wednesday offers a counterpoint to every tendency that aims to hide facets of our life from God.
Seeing with clarity
You can live a long time off a vision like the transfiguration. But there is much else in this world we must look at, from which we dare not avert our eyes.
Trained to disappear
Anna Rollins’s memoir examines purity culture, disordered eating, and the cost of being a good Christian girl.
Morality requires other people
When we substitute personal interest for the public good, trust begins to disappear in our society.
The sacred testimony of Black joy
It’s a fugitive act, a form of resistance that creates freedom inside captivity.
Unrealized potential
It is time for men to embrace our capacity to care for people without applause.
A heart that spoke and listened
Lerita Coleman Brown’s health journey drew her to the contemplative path. She taught me to listen with my whole self.
A better prayer for prisons
I love the Book of Common Prayer. I have some problems with Prayer #37.
A great library of witnesses
Watching from Bethlehem, feeling helpless as the death toll rose in Gaza, I applied to go far away and do research.
The smoke screen of “speaking the truth in love”
It seems like every Christian on social media has an opinion on Philip Yancey’s confession. I think we should keep them to ourselves.
Portraits of silence
My week in a convent helped me see how our freedom is contaminated by noise. Silentium is a tribute to the nuns who welcomed me.
Imagining the Magi
To be God’s people is to be caught up in parable, in story and storytelling.
Reading the Qur’an at Christmastide
God seems more real to me when I encounter other traditions’ reflections on what God is like.
A cloud of witnesses for the new year
When the world feels like too much, I look to those who bore even greater burdens in ages past.
From comedy club to convent
How an insecure stand-up comic became a moderately famous Episcopal nun
Playing to lose
I witnessed the sports betting empire ruin one man’s life. It’s coming for millions more.
The poverty of gossip
It’s not just that it’s sadistic. It also lacks aesthetic or psychological imagination.
The monsters we make
Historian Surekha Davies exposes humanity’s long-standing practice of turning difference into monstrosity.