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What Does Faith Have to Do with Justice?
Do Christians stand for justice? In what ways has the message of white supremacy worked its way into Christian churches?
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A Patron Saint for Our Pandemic - A reluctant pilgrimage to Julian of...
Our lockdowns and distancing and harrowing loss of life has made me all the more glad I went to Norwich.
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On Time in the Pandemic
The pandemic has changed how we experience time-- it has both slowed and sped up. Living with restrictions and without our usual routines, we have an opportunity to reassess time itself.
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For the Love of God and Family - How I Learned to Stop Living in Fear and...
Being the Black father of Black boys in America today means more than giving "the talk." The threat of gun violence from many sources brought this father to a heartbreaking decision.
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Evoking the Exile
In Marguerite Sheehan's poem, she recalls how the onset of Covid-19 unmoored us from liturgical time, from each other, as some tuned in to Sunday services filmed earlier in the week.
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Pandemic Pastoring in the Czech Republic - A Covid Year
"People have the same spiritual needs as always, and it is more complicated to meet them," reflects a pastor in the Czech Republic.
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The Sounds from Hundreds of Homes - A Covid Year
On March 22, 2020, unable to meet in their temple, hundreds of Hindu households in Minnesota tuned in to chant a powerful mantra for the world.
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A Pandemic Year in the Syro-Malabar Church in Bangalore - A Covid Year
In Bangalore, India, the Covid-19 pandemic strengthened the family and domestic church, and saw religious communities unite in service despite the challenges.
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Candles of Hope: Spirituality and Social Media during the Pandemic - A Covid...
Using the hashtag #candlesofhope, Sarah Lane Cawte used social media to spread hope during the first Covid-19 lockdown in England.
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How Covid Changed my Engagement with the Lord’s Prayer - A Covid Year
Feeling helpless and far from family in Nigeria during Covid-19, Jessie Fubara-Manuel found peace in "The Lord's Prayer."
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The Scent of Grief
A pastor reflects on air fresheners and the National Guard at a protest in Brooklyn Center after Daunte Wright was killed by police.
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Tele-prayers: The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Pandemic - A Covid Year
When the government offered televised worship for different religious communities, they devolved quickly into polemical attacks and had to be shut down.
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Language to Get Us Through Covid-19 - A Covid Year
Lockdown in NYC upended Plymouth Church's immersive vocation project, but they adapted and found new language relevant to the crisis.
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Joy Comes in the Morning - A Covid Year
A year of Covid-19 opened our lives and prayer even as it removed us from in-person gatherings. For J. Anderson, the Divine began to speak in life-changing ways.
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Beneath the Loss - A Covid Year
"Beneath the loss, if we dwell with it and look at it long enough, I think we can often see that love remains."
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Rejecting White Apathy - An Excerpt from Dear White Peacemakers
In this book excerpt, Osheta Moore calls white peacemakers to reject apathy toward racism by refusing to "ignore, explain away, reject, or give into overwhelm."
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All is Possible - A profile of Eric LeCompte of Jubliee USA
Meet former Resident Scholar Eric LeCompte, who leads the nonprofit Jubilee USA and addresses economic inequality on a global scale through debt forgiveness.
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To Kneel in the Soil: Responding to a Climate Generation in Crisis
How do we answer children's fears about the ongoing climate crisis? Maybe the best we can do is engaging them with living soil.
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The Brightened Table
That Eucharistic table stands in the center of our worship space as an affirmation of the table of solidarity of those who eat at it with all who hunger.
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Closing the Purpose Gap
Patrick Reyes invites those living in the gap between opportunity and purpose to imagine a different future.
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