Barbara Brown Taylor There is a place where human knowing runs out “We know,” Nicodemus says to Jesus when he first comes into the room. “You do not know,” Jesus says to Nicodemus right before he leaves. If you interpret this as…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Un-Christlike Conservativism I’ve traveled around the country working at the intersection of progressive politics and religion for the past decade and met countless activists bogged down by un-Christlike conservativism prevailing in our…
Frederick Buechner A Crazy, Holy Grace A crazy, holy grace I have called it. Crazy because whoever could have predicted it? Who can ever foresee the crazy how and when and where of a grace that…
Frederick Buechner With Great Laughter by Frederick Buechner Part of the farce was that for the first time in my life that year in New York, I started going to church regularly, and what was…
Madeleine L'Engle Christian art? Christian art? Art is art; painting is painting; music is music; a story is a story. If it’s bad art, it’s bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. If…
Religion News Service For white Christians, racial justice starts with telling the truth by Robert P. Jones, on Religion News Service Perhaps the biggest obstacle to white Christians’ full participation in the movement for racial equality is an unshakable commitment to our own…
Diana Butler Bass Jesus gives water, and he is water. SCRIPTURE: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” you would have asked him, and he would have…
Kathleen Norris A Prayer to Eve Mother of fictions and of irony help us to laugh. Mother of science and the critical method, keep us humble. Muse of listeners, hope of interpreters inspire us to act.…
Barbara Brown Taylor Love The Stranger However you define the problematic present-day stranger—the religious stranger, the cultural stranger, the transgendered stranger, the homeless stranger—scripture’s wildly impractical solution is to love the stranger as the self. You…
Uncategorized Something This Protestant Learned from a Jew About Reading the Bible: A Story by Pete Enns https://peteenns.com/something-this-protestant-learned-from-a-jew-about-reading-the-bible-a-story/