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The Louisiana Standard Version
There are many problems with the Ten Commandments laws states are passing. One is the specific text they require schools to post.
It is tempting to look to the heavens rather than face the reality of the world.
May 14, Ascension (Luke 24:44–53)
Too many of us have not had ears to hear. Our marketing materials have been too slick.
May 14, Ascension (Luke 24:44–53)
Too many of us have not had ears to hear. Our marketing materials have been too slick.
May 14, Ascension (Luke 24:44–53)
Too many of us have not had ears to hear. Our marketing materials have been too slick.
In the valley of echoes
People often respond not to the person in front of them but to reverberations from the past.
Compassion and its rationale are so simple.
by Amy Leach
The Black Madonna and the church’s imagination
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones argues that to name Mary as Black is to challenge Christianity’s complicity in colonization and to claim sacred Blackness.
The Black Madonna and the church’s imagination
Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones argues that to name Mary as Black is to challenge Christianity’s complicity in colonization and to claim sacred Blackness.
April 19, Easter 3 (Luke 24:13–35)
I don’t know where Jesus is heading when he encounters the two companions on the road, but it seems like maybe he never does get there.
April 19, Easter 3 (Luke 24:13–35)
I don’t know where Jesus is heading when he encounters the two companions on the road, but it seems like maybe he never does get there.
Jesus and the wilderness of trans identity
I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.
Jesus and the wilderness of trans identity
I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.
Jesus and the wilderness of trans identity
I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.
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.
January 6, Epiphany (Ephesians 3:1–12; Matthew 2:1–12)
Herod is frightened—or disturbed, or troubled, or all of the above.
January 6, Epiphany (Ephesians 3:1–12; Matthew 2:1–12)
Herod is frightened—or disturbed, or troubled, or all of the above.
January 6, Epiphany (Ephesians 3:1–12; Matthew 2:1–12)
Herod is frightened—or disturbed, or troubled, or all of the above.