Life of Faith
The novelist and the theologian
I’m trying to live as Haruki Murakami writes: with questions but not an end in mind.
Reading the Bible with a transgender minister
Shannon Kearns knows and is known by scripture deeply; he knows scripture better because he is trans.
In Search of Interspiritual Truth: An Interview with John Thatamanil (S2:E8)
“If I’m truly, as a Christian, to affirm that core affirmation that God so loved the world, then divine disclosure must be happening far beyond the boundaries of the Christian tradition.”
Our teens are not OK
Especially the girls, whose depression levels are at record highs. Can the church help?
Staying awake for Easter
What ritual remedies exist to sharpen our spiritual attention, focus, and clarity?
In Search of Truth: Journalism with Dawn Araujo-Hawkins (S2:E7)
“The job of a journalist is to call a spade a spade. If something is racist, if it’s homophobic, if it’s xenophobic, it’s our job to say that . . . to be as explicit as we can about it.”
In Search of Truth: Physics with Zeeya Merali (S2:E6)
“I went there originally to go and speak to him about his ideas for the origins of space and time, but in the back of my mind, I wanted to ask him about his practices meditating, just as an aside maybe.”
Back to basics with a Dutch Nazi resistor
K. H. Miskotte wrote a Karl Barth for Dummies in 1941. It offers a bracing challenge today.
Encouraged by donkeys
For almost 40 years they have done their plodding, gracious work on me and my vocation.
April 2, Palm Sunday A (Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; Matthew 21:1-11)
In the Palm Sunday narrative, all the signs are there: something big is about to happen.
April 2, Passion Sunday A (Matthew 26:14-27:66)
The Passion reveals the many gods of my own making.
Checking (and rechecking) the weather
When we’re obsessed with the forecast, we may miss what’s happening in the present.
Jesus is the question
He might be the answer, too. But he doesn’t offer much in the way of tweetable platitudes.
In Search of Truth: Dreams with Rodger Kamenetz (S2:E5)
“Our dreams give us a template so that we can begin to live with awe and wonder and pain and terror in waking life.”
The journey to a lost Mennonite colony in Uzbekistan
Sofia Samatar’s memoir takes readers through a landscape of prismatic identities and wandering passions.
Five ways your church might already welcome autistic adults
And some ideas for expanding that welcome
In Search of Truth: Memoir and History with Sofia Samatar (S2:E4)
“Everybody’s stories are entangled.”
A self-emptying of privilege
Brandan Robertson grounds his discussion of Christians and privilege in the kenosis hymn of Philippians 2.
Did God intend for Adam and Eve to live forever?
Maybe immortality is about more than not being dead.