Life of Faith
June 25, Ordinary 12A (Romans 6:1b–11)
False security is a lovely, loathsome thing.
Transformed by the dog I never wanted
She’s helping me answer the question, “Why this life instead of another?”
Reading scripture through the lens of nature
Daniel Cooperrider understands the Bible as an outdoor book, open to the sky.
June 18, Ordinary 11A (Genesis 18:1–15)
The prankster is God, through whom all things are possible.
The altar in my attic
My boxes of old sermons are a monument to my church’s ongoing conversation with God.
God’s underwater language
As a marine biologist, I ask how—and dance at the edge of asking why.
Burnout and resilience in the wilderness
Many rural pastors like me are finding Jesus in the desert places.
The strangers who saved my life
When you receive an emergency transfusion, you don’t get to choose who the blood comes from.
A tech-savvy Christian sexual ethic
Kate Ott challenges us to practice erotically attuned love everywhere, even online.
Is The Hero of this Book a novel or a memoir?
In either case, Elizabeth McCracken’s account of losing a mother is wrenching and tender.
A queer boy in North Dakota
Taylor Brorby’s coming-of-age memoir is a work of defiance. But it is not a tragedy.
How we care for dead bodies—or don’t
Cody Sanders and Mikeal Parsons yearn for a better theology around death, dying, and the body.
Jesus is traumatized
Minister and veteran David Peters invites us to consider our own post-traumatic identities in a new light.
The woman behind tarot’s strange beauty
I wonder how Pamela Colman Smith worked it out in reverse, led by her own creativity straight to the Catholic Church—the place I’ve tried to leave.
Prayer as mourning, mourning as prayer
In Jon Fosse’s Septology, a tragic vision of faith shines with a luminous darkness.