In 1964, artist Norman Rockwell, best known for his photorealistic depictions of everyday American life, painted the now-iconic picture of 6-year-old Ruby...
Author - Rebecca Bratten Weiss
Zero at the Bone By Christian Wiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) Despair hits differently at different times, and sometimes what hits isn’t despair, but a...
Some years back, I watched a discussion unfold on social media about the devil. A Catholic woman anxiously asked her friends for prayers that could be used to...
Or/And By Jeannine Marie Pitas (Paraclete Press, 2023) “Plato’s Symposium did not quite get it,” writes Jeannine Marie Pitas. “We are not severed eight-limbed...
Readings (Year A): 2 Kings 4:8 – 11, 14 – 16aPsalms 89:2 – 3, 16 – 17, 18 – 19Romans 6:3 – 4, 8 – 11Matthew 10:37...
Tell Her Story By Nijay K. Gupta (InterVarsity Press, 2023) In the foreword to Nijay K. Gupta’s Tell Her Story, historian Beth Allison Barr describes how...
When I was a young adult, I didn’t think I was a feminist. This was not because I didn’t want the same opportunities men had. At the evangelical ranch, camp...
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Directed by Rian Johnson (Netflix, 2022) The years between 1920 and 1940 were an era of extreme income inequality, excessive...
As a child, sometimes I woke in the morning to a thumping sound from the living room, as though someone was hitting the floor with a wooden mallet. That sound...
Home schooling, once a niche option for countercultural groups, has become more mainstream. Data from the Census Bureau indicate that between 1999 and 2012 the...
