You gather up the grayof this dull January day,then, just before the hidden sunshould setyou open the horizonsewing streaks ...
To be God’s people is to be caught up in parable, in story and storytelling.
Today a cardinal poured out of the woods, redderthan arterial blood. When my husband died, I got cardssaying this slash of ...
I once asked a child to give a Sunday sermon—on the book of Job.
Jesus is even identified as the “son of Mary” in the Qur’an (Q 19:34), a subversion of the typical patriarchal naming ...
New Year’s Day usually feels anticlimactic, and this one likely will be no different for many people. I find myself looking ...
Jason Mott’s wildly inventive novel depicts two Black American writers, an ocean apart. It’s up to the reader to decide how ...
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Flight.” ...
At 67 years old, Rick Black turned from journalism to poetry. In last year’s Two Seasons in Israel: A Selection of Peace and ...
At first glance, the nativity scene outside Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, has all the traditional hallmarks: Mary ...
Why does a Mozart opera make me weepBut I don’t cry at any other one?Herr Wagner’s thunderbolts put me to sleep.Rossini’s ...
As these failures unfold, God always seems to be lingering in the background—not a theologically rigorous or morally ...