“When I was fifteen . . . an angel of God came to me in the night, pinned me to my bed, and demanded that I trust in the Lord.” So begins Christopher Beha’s book Why I am Not an Atheist. The former Harper’s Magazine editor writes of growing up Roman Catholic, turning to atheism…
For the last decade, I, like many, have tried to make sense of what’s going on across the border and have been dumbfounded by Christians gleefully signing on to MAGA. We need fresh theological insights. Happily, Lee Camp’s book Scandalous Witness, first published in 2020 during Trump One, is newly re-released and is more relevant…
Ate so many zucchini this summer – my / garden was almost / Bursting with the glut of great, green / Canoes, yes, that huge, and (my / fault) largely forgotten in the shade of their
/ Dark leaves, prickled, palmate, / Enormous enough to conceal the / Fat vegetal weight until I stooped and saw and / Gathered them guiltily in, my kitchen counter / Heaped with these waiting torpedoes, waiting for / Ideas of
/ Just what I would make.
What to make of the high percentage of evangelical Christian women continuing to support Donald Trump, even after a sexual assault conviction, the Epstein files and evidence of enriching himself from tax dollars? Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez traces the development of a particular notion of femininity and Christian womanhood in a book complementing her…
Anchors and foreign correspondents were familiar names when I began paying attention to the news as a young person during the 1980s. Brian Stewart stood out with coverage from far-off places like Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Poland and Afghanistan. His reporting on The Journal went beyond sensational headlines, providing deeper insight into world events. References to…
“Miss Prim had been called all kinds of things – precise, punctual, and practical. Sometimes even stern, strict, and scary. But never welcoming or whimsical, and certainly not wild. Miss Prim believed in no-nonsense.” So begins author Katy Rose’s playful, lyrical introduction to Miss Prim, a controlling, grouchy woman who terrifies neighborhood children with threats…
It’s not written in the book and may just be my own vision / but perhaps every week or ten days until the end / his mother came and washed his tunic, / mended the small tears, / made Jesus wear an old, very soft, shift of his late father’s / while his tunic dried
Paul Kingsnorth gives us his deeply considered assessment of the post-Christian world: “The dethroning of the old sovereign – Christ, who sat at the heart of the Western sacred order – has not led to universal equality and justice. It has led . . . through Robespierre, Stalin and Hitler, to the complete triumph of…
Libraries / librarians / books /
teachers / moms / grandmas /
scientists / laboratories / cells /
crows / forests / oceans / orcas /
research stations / kindergarten
classes / therapy sessions / your
brain / my brain / humanity
Perpetua, killed in 203 A.D., was her era’s most famous martyr. Her fame came from being regularly mentioned in sermons by well-known bishop Augustine, as well as other third and fourth century preachers. Sarah Ruden’s biography of Perpetua is part of Yale University Press’s “Ancient Lives” collection, a series exploring stories of ancient thinkers, writers…
. . . Livea three-dimensioned life;stay away from screens.Stay away from anythingthat obscures the place it is in.– “How to Be a Poet,” Wendell Berry I woke early, and in the blue dawn my mind began to trace the contours of this editorial – my take as an educator, parent and interdisciplinary artist on the…
In Matthew 6, Jesus told us to “look at the birds of the air” for lessons that birds can teach us about ourselves and God’s care for us. The word “ornitheology” was coined by theologian and avid birdwatcher John Stott, blending together ornithology (the study of birds) with theology (the study of God). It’s a…
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