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...
Author - Rebecca Bratten Weiss
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...
Eleutheria By Allegra Hyde (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2022) Allegra Hyde’s debut novel, Eleutheria, grapples with big questions about human hope and...
Every summer, my father planted huge gardens that yielded the food our family lived on for much of the year. And every summer my sister and I were pressed into...
Readings (Year C): Acts 14:21-27Psalm 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13Revelation 21:1-5aJohn 13:34 Reflection: “As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.”...
