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The dangers of providing pastoral care

Woundedness is the predictable price we pay for being sent on outrageous assignments by Jesus.

Will Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas in conversation

Voter suppression is lethal to democracy

We can’t let the filibuster keep us from doing something about it.

from the Editors

On her deathbed, St. Clare of Assisi blessed God

Her radical final words confounded me for years.

by Wendy Murray

         

Living by the Word for August 1 (Ordinary 18B)

“Trust me!” Jesus says, and the more he says it, the less the crowd is inclined to go along.

by Daniel Schultz 

Ordinary 18B archives

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God at the center

A priority is singular. It’s hard to have more than one.

by Peter W. Marty

In Mediterranean Europe, St. Benedict the Moor is back

The Afropean saint is reemerging amid a swelling African diaspora.

by Philip Jenkins

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