Brian Bantum
Stretched between life’s verses
The future is scary: we simply don’t know, and it flies toward us anyway.
Stretched between life’s verses
The future is scary: we simply don’t know, and it flies toward us anyway.
After every election, I turn to Tolstoy
His challenges to the left and right alike are devastating and timely.
The gift of interfaith difference
At the Muslim community center, I felt the tension of our divergence. But I also sensed gratitude.
Is religion good for human flourishing?
The Global Flourishing Study is producing a dazzling amount of data to help us answer this sort of question.
What does poetry do?
Maybe nothing. Maybe that’s its power.
Advent in the squatters’ camp
As a human rights worker during Argentina’s Dirty War, I learned to read the signs.
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.
Lessons from the land of lake effect snow
Life can be as unpredictable as the weather in upstate New York. But God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Ancestral blessings
I attended a talk by a pastor who begins services by asking, “Who do you bring into worship with you?”
Keep swinging for the fences
My decades of church life have been full of the stuff one might expect from a place that promises God and only sometimes delivers.
Divine silence
A Quaker colleague taught me how stillness exercises agency, how it acts upon worshipers.
Mourning prayer
The church’s old cork board reminded me that our heartbroken cries go directly to God.
After every election, I turn to Tolstoy
Advent in the squatters’ camp
Keep swinging for the fences
Divine silence
Ancestral blessings
Stretched between life’s verses
Lessons from the land of lake effect snow
Mourning prayer
Conspiracies of goodness
The gift of interfaith difference
Why church marketing won’t work with Gen Z
Vegetables that are fearfully and wonderfully made
Being salt
The meaning of a sermon
The hope I’ve arrived at