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A very long discernment
Luke is in a maximum security prison. He wants to be an Episcopal priest.
Should we avoid liturgical language of light and dark?
While struggling with this question as a church songwriter, I came up with six guidelines.
A clergy mental health crisis
The stress of the past few years has brought many to the breaking point.
A troubling new coalition in Israel
How will Netanyahu and his new allies govern? And what will become of the Israeli left?
The sacred relics of a lifetime of ministry
Marilyn wasn’t sure she could stomach the sight of a truck carting 56 years of her husband’s work to the dump.
Yemen’s children and America’s oil
Our role in the proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Baldwin the exorcist
He wrote to free the heart from hatred and despair.
Returning to a book that shaped my imagination
Is there a word for nostalgia tinged with trauma?
Persia’s first American missionaries
Justin Perkins and Charlotte Bass suffered multiple losses during their missionary years. Was it worth it?
On Native land
Land acknowledgments can do a lot of good—if they’re rooted in solid process and relationships.
A liturgy in the borderlands
Alvaro Enciso plants crosses where migrants have died, to keep them from disappearing into oblivion.
Is Sinéad O’Connor a secular saint?
A new documentary positions the fiery iconoclast as a prophet ahead of her time.
Mary, Joseph, and a tea vendor named Sami
In Luke’s Advent story, Bethlehem’s economy is central—and it looks a lot like Bethlehem’s economy today.
The quiet rise of Christian dominionism
Jerry Falwell wanted to prepare America for the end of the world. Ted Cruz’s evangelical backers want to take America over.
Meet the Church of Sweden’s archbishop-elect
Martin Modéus will lead the national church during a time of profound change.
The land mourns
Hosea testifies to an earth that laments with its people.
Earth’s self-care
The blue-and-green-marbled planet is trying her best to restore stability.
Can these stones live?
Some Indigenous traditions suggest that rocks are sentient. What does this mean for how we humans relate to them?
The right to life is an essential human right
Its relationship to abortion, however, is complicated.
Ministry with the grieving
Twenty of us gathered to talk about having a job that requires us to weep with those who weep.