Elizabeth Palmer
Children’s books for tough conversations
We asked 11 writers to tell us about a book that opens up space for adults and children to discuss important questions.
Accompanying immigrants as they negotiate an unjust system
"It’s easy to think of the border as some remote, far-off place, but the truth is that there are detention centers in nearly every state."
The great multitude (Revelation 7:9-17)
As theophanies go, this one is oddly comforting.
Talking with Miriam Toews about Women Talking
“My novel is just one small part of a conversation that can’t be silenced.”
Knowing and preaching the Jewish Jesus
“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”
Dismantling anti-Jewish readings of the Passion story
Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine reminds us, was a Jew.
Working within neighborhoods to end mass incarceration
"By building social capacity, communities can respond to their own issues rather than rely on responses from the criminal justice system."
A story that puts you in an Amazon warehouse worker’s shoes
Heike Geissler’s account of her time at Amazon is far more than a workplace exposé.
What's new this Advent?
Four of the best new resources for individuals, congregations, and families
How Dove’s Nest trains churches to keep children safe
“Churches are places of high trust—and high risk.”
Boys will be like the boys they read about
Books can’t singlehandedly destroy toxic masculinity. But they can chip away at it.
How a tweet turned Eric Metaxas into my brother
It’s all fun and games until your political enemy calls you “dear sister in Christ.”
Trump's rotten fruit and my own
Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.
James Cone's theology is easy to like and hard to live
If Jesus is black, he's calling us to do a lot more than affirm the color of his skin.
Poetry and transience
National Poetry Month is over, but there's plenty of good poetry to get us through the next 11 months.