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Tim Brown
Tim Brown is an ELCA pastor, a writer, and a development officer for the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
A black pastor writes to the white church about its complicity in oppression
Lenny Duncan’s letter is full of hope and fury, love and lament—like Paul’s epistles.
Baby steps toward Christian unity
Allen Hilton profiles churches that are uniting people across ideological differences.
Mary Oliver broke my heart
The poet helped me to realize how little I knew about a life observed.
The church's holy, subversive possessions
Ben Dueholm offers a humble apologetics—of faithful actions, not beliefs.
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