Rev. Angela N. Parker is a womanist New Testament scholar at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. The refrain “I can’t breathe” is a rallying cry for...
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Readings (Year C): Sirach 27:4-7Psalm 92:2-3, 13-161 Corinthians 15:54-58Luke 6:39-45 Reflection: Stay rooted in relationship with God Have you ever picked a...
Midnight Mass Directed by Mike Flanagan (Netflix, 2021) The scariest thing about Midnight Mass isn’t the blood or creatures. It’s the people. The miniseries...
“God-forsaken.” That’s what she had been told. For 12 years, that’s what they told her. Maybe not using those exact words. But her friends and family, her own...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify British author and journalist Austen Ivereigh has written two biographies of Pope Francis and collaborated with the pope...
May his memory be a blessing. I found myself repeating these words—a rabbinic phrase that originates in the Jewish tradition—to a Jewish colleague as we...
Readings (Year C): 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23Psalm 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-131 Corinthians 15:45-49Luke 6:27-38 Reflection: Let God do the repaying Is it...
Saving Grace By Kirsten Powers (Convergent Books, 2021) To say that grace is in desperately short supply in our public discourse is one thing. To delve into...
Ted Lasso is teaching boys how to be men and men how to be good people. Right there on television, where the opposite usually happens. The American...
“Mommy, why aren’t you happy just the way God made you?!” When my 8-year-old daughter posed this query with tears streaming down her face, it was a punch to...
