But a quick look through scripture shows that following the sacred story of God’s involvement in our world is not without a ...
I pointed congregations to the Phoenix Affirmations, a set of statements articulated at a 2006 mainline Protestant gathering and later published by pastor and biblical scholar Eric Elnes. I suggested ...
It is the discipline of a community that has resolved not to rush human life past its own dignity. When such practices erode, ...
The brief Biblical account of Herod’s slaughter of innocents raises the question of what faith demands when politics fails to ...
Rebecca Bratten Weiss finds treasures in the ruins of Christian literary classics. But first, the idols need to ...
In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Mike Huckabee, the Trump administration’s representative in Israel, was ...
It is at this time, when patriotism is causing bloodshed, that this effort to invent a new form must be made.” Against Hitler’s obsession with greatness, Weil suggests a patriotism motivated by ...
In her third book on trust, Teresa Morgan argues that it is what empowers us to turn away from wrongdoing and suffering and ...
Imagining that Spanish chapel whereThis altarpiece had stood five hundred years,Hearing a ringing sanctuary bellHurrying the family to their morning mass,I see them dip their fingertips in water,Cross ...
Rebecca Bratten Weiss finds treasures in the ruins of Christian literary classics. But first, the idols need to ...
We “discover” an obscure band only to run into people who’ve known about it for years. We read a book that appears to us as ...
In this particular dream, I was attending a panel on character in America, a fitting topic just before the presidential ...