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Ending food insecurity will take more than community fridges

It’s beautiful when people come together to protect their hungry neighbors. It’s appalling that they have to.

by the Editors

How I learned to love church coffee

“The coffee is much better now that we attend a Lutheran church,” I told my husband, wailing.

by Kay Lynn Northcutt

Faith is a gift to relax into

The Greek word for faith, pistis, isn’t about assenting to beliefs. It’s about trust.

by Peter W. Marty

         

Living by the Word for July 18 (Ordinary 15B)

God promises to build a bayit, a house. But not one with boundaries.

by Yvette Schock

Ordinary 16B archives

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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

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