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Green burial as an act of faith

A growing number of Christians are embracing natural burial practices.

by Dawn Araujo-Hawkins

Encountering Alice Neel’s paintings of mothers while pregnant

Her complex portraits reveal an alchemy of desire, pain, power, and weakness.

by Catherine Ricketts

Living between the Bible’s first and last prayers

Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”

by Timothy Jones

         

Living by the Word for July 11 (Ordinary 15B)

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.

by Yvette Schock

Ordinary 15B archives

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Critical race theory is a gift to Christians

The good news about collective and institutional sin is that, like individual sin, it can be redeemed.

from the Editors

For BLM cofounder Alicia Garza, organizing is about doing the work no one wants to do

Someone has got to do the dishes.

by Aelijah Lynch

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