A growing number of Christians are embracing natural burial practices.
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A growing number of Christians are embracing natural burial practices.
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** Encountering Alice Neel’s paintings of mothers while pregnant ([link removed])
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Her complex portraits reveal an alchemy of desire, pain, power, and weakness.
by Catherine Ricketts
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Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”
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The gap in the lectionary’s account of the return of the Ark of the Covenant echoes a pattern we have seen too often in our country.
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The good news about collective and institutional sin is that, like individual sin, it can be redeemed.
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Someone has got to do the dishes.
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