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Letting the Bible read us
Do we allow scripture to shape our identity, or do we reshape scripture to fit the nation we imagine ourselves to be?
An unlettered theologian
Nancy Koester’s biography captures the remarkable ministry of Sojourner Truth, who could not read or write.
No one is anonymous
When we baptize, we baptize individual people who have names.
by Peter W. Marty
True Christianity in the midst of American shock
A brief black and Anabaptist account
By Drew G. I. Hart