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/
Diana Butler Bass How do you experience gratitude when feelings are elusive? How do you experience gratitude when feelings are elusive? Emotions are random things. Love, sadness, joy, fear. Very few are predictable, and most move like winds through our lives. They…
Religion News Service The Price of White Evangelical Patriarchy from Religion & Politics https://religionandpolitics.org/2020/07/07/the-price-of-white-evangelical-patriarchy/
Kathleen Norris Stomach My stomach is of many minds, it believes everything it eats. My eschatological stomach, a fundamentalist of sorts, grows intent at drawing blood from surfaces of things: ice-cold fingers touch…
Frederick Buechner Alphabet of Grace Life itself can be thought of as an alphabet by which God graciously makes known his presence and purpose and power among us. Like the Hebrew alphabet, the alphabet of…
Barbara Brown Taylor Sit Me Down I can respect almost anyone who admits to being human while reading a divine text. After that, we can talk—about why we highlight some teachings and ignore others, about how…
Marcus Borg Sometimes the Bible Is Wrong Because the awareness that the Bible is sometimes wrong has been so important in my own Christian journey and because I am convinced that this realization is important for all…
Uncategorized Former Obama Staffer Offers a Primer on Religion in Public Life https://religionandpolitics.org/2020/05/27/former-obama-staffer-offers-a-primer-on-religion-in-public-life/
Barbara Brown Taylor I miss a lot The fact that we need so much help understanding what we are looking at is a lesson in itself. How often do we assume that we know what we are…
Kaitlin Curtice Releasing a Book During a Pandemic by Kaitlin Curtice https://kaitlincurtice.substack.com/p/soul-to-soul-newsletter-c05?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
Marcus Borg “God is wholly other.” Initially seminary only deepened my doubt. There I learned two things about God that exacerbated the problem. On the one hand, much of what I heard reinforced my notion that…
Kathleen Norris Eve Alone, in the Garden of Eden It’s easy to feel like a whore in here. Fisherman, potato farmers go in and out and the plumbing whistles all night. The venetian blind falls down, the kitchen drain…
Diana Butler Bass The language of mysticism and spiritual experience The language of mysticism and spiritual experience cuts a wide swath through the world’s religious traditions, and it presents an alternative theology, that of connection and intimacy. In Christian tradition,…
Kaitlin Curtice Potawatomi Christian author Kaitlin Curtice on finding herself and God in new book Curtice wasn’t expecting to release her book amid a pandemic, but she believes the book can speak into this moment in history. https://religionnews.com/2020/05/05/potawatomi-christian-author-kaitlin-curtice-on-finding-herself-and-finding-god-in-new-book-native/
Frederick Buechner Dreams No matter how prosaic, practical, and ploddingly unimaginative we may be, we have dreams like everybody else. All of us do. In them even the most down-to-earth and pedestrian of…
Barbara Brown Taylor Which is giving me a better picture? This sets up a weird tension between the small window of my classroom and the small window of my phone. Which is giving me a better picture of the real…
