Two months before police murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot and killed in her own home by police...
Scripture
So here’s the story of my friend, Wes, from Kentucky. We’ve never met, but I’ve known Wes for years. He reads the reflections I write in this or that magazine...
Most folks wouldn’t name the Books of Kings among their go-to reads. Why not? The Books of Kings are cool! Not because of the kings, necessarily, but because...
In the weeks and months following the global economic shutdown due to the novel coronavirus and the international quarantines and shelter-in-place orders...
We’ve recently had a taste of what it’s like not to go to church. We literally couldn’t gather. Since the root word for church, ekklesia, means “assembly,” not...
What does it mean to be in exile? The Christian tradition treats the idea of exile as a spiritual phenomenon: being sundered from our pristine beginnings, cast...
Will there be enough? This question invaded our thoughts and made a bid for our souls in the early weeks of the pandemic this year. Fear of insufficiency made...
While nurses continue to wheel patients with suspected COVID-19 infections into the ICU, Dr. Felix and his team frantically try to stabilize a patient brought...
Around the turn of the millenium, British scholar Emma Heathcote-James set out to collect stories of modern day angel encounters. She placed a classified ad...
When St. Paul arrives in the Roman Empire, teaching the gospel of God’s love for humanity through the self-gift of Christ on the cross, he meets an empire...
