If you are at all observant (I am not), you may have already noticed that this weekly Editors’ Picks email has had a makeover. That’s because WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE. I’m a little excited about it. I’m also excited about our showing at last week’s Associated Church Press annual awards, where we notched over 20 wins. I am particularly delighted by our award for Best Disapproving Letter to the Editor; after our magazine redesign last year, one reader asked, “What does this very slick, tight-columned, hard-spined inflexibility say about God?”
(You may not know this, but I help put together each issue’s Letters & Comments section. Any time you have something to say about one of our articles, please consider sending us a letter by emailing [email protected].)
“The topic of gendered nouns presents the opportunity to use this dead language to support a growing number of students who are aware of the power that languages hold to enable us to understand our own identities.”
“The expulsion of Jones and Pearson is not the first such event in history. It calls to mind the expulsion of the Original 33—the first Black legislators elected in Georgia—155 years earlier. Examining the precedent can tell us a lot about our cultural moment.”
“Inciting Joy’s essays are called incitements, conjuring the revolutionary tactics joy engages as it emerges in the midst of our entanglement with suffering, sorrow, and systems of oppression.”
