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Four Surprising Theological Lessons From Winter Landscape Painting (Huh?)
Even the Dreariest Winter Landscapes Declare the Glory of God.
This Will All Make Sense When I Am Older
Why a Song from a Disney Princess Movie Is Probably My Favorite Song of the Pandemic
MLK’s “True Revolution of Values” Begins with the Mercy of the Cross
“The First Hope in Our Inventory Must Be the Hope that Love is Going to Have the Last Word.”
Stripping Away Everything but the Gospel: An Advent-Tinged Reflection on Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town
Nine Months of Waiting and “Getting Ready for Christmas Day”
Stubborn Burros: Why Intrafaith Dialogue May Be More Important Than Interfaith Dialogue
Dialogue Won’t Heal our Deepest Divisions, but It will Humanize our Adversaries
The More Walt Whitman Strove for Perfection, the More It Eluded Him
“God Comes a Loving Bed-Fellow and Sleeps at My Side All Night”
Tim Kreider on the Pleasures and Perils of “Outrage Porn”
Pain is a Physical Delight; Empathy is an Impotent Pain
David Brooks on the Beauty of Jesus in the Raging Storm
“When You See Jesus in this Context, You See How Completely Bold and Aggressive He Was. He Lived in a Crowded, Angry World yet Took on all Comers.”
Summer in Omelas: What Are We to Do With All This (Climate) Grief? Part 2
If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it … Scapegoating, exporting our unresolved hurt, is the most common storyline of human history. The Jesus Story is about radically transforming history and individuals so that we don’t just keep handing on the pain to the next generation. Richard Rohr, “Transforming Pain” […]
Summer in Omelas: What Are We to Do With All This (Climate) Grief? Part 1
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence … has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God — not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our […]
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