The holiness of Toni Morrison’s fictional worlds

Faith, in Morrison’s novels, is about improvising a way toward freedom.

Tasting salvation during a fellowship meal at a maximum security prison

None of us wants it to end, because we know we'll never see each other again.

by Isaac S. Villegas

A word that helps keep me rooted as the child of immigrants

Nadhe is a longing and a hope, a heaven and a solid place on earth.

by Debie Thomas

When our past sins come up

There's no perfect way to atone, but humility is a good start.

by Peter W. Marty

Living by the Word for Sunday, September 29

Conversion narratives raise a question: Why does it take so much to get there?

by Julian DeShazier

A prophetic ministry of relationship

Jesus in conversation with three women in the Gospels

by Ian McFarland

Is the “final judgment” really final?

What the Bible doesn't say about hell

by David Bentley Hart

Reparations is a spiritual issue

No full reparation for slavery can ever be made. We should try anyway.

by Nibs Stroupe

The intersection between blackness and whiteness

Emily Bernard’s essays insist that no conversation is about race alone.

by Allie Lundblad