When COVID took Melissa Florer-Bixler's sense of smell, she was drawn to the Bible’s description of God’s.

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** God’s nose ([link removed])
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When COVID took my sense of smell, I was drawn to the Bible’s description of God’s.

by Melissa Florer-Bixler


** Whose religious freedom is at stake with Texas’s new abortion law? ([link removed])
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Some rabbis are claiming that SB 8 violates the obligations of their faith.

from the Editors


** Is Brazil’s Universal Church of the Kingdom of God a field hospital or a marketplace? ([link removed])
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A look inside the thriving (and sometimes controversial) neo-Pentecostal denomination

by Paulo Pereira
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** Living by the Word for September 26 (Ordinary 26B) ([link removed])
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I regularly pray for things that are unlikely to come about quickly, if at all.

by Nanette Sawyer

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** The roots of India’s united churches ([link removed])
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How the Church of South India and Church of North India were formed—and how they fare today.

by Philip Jenkins


** How Amazon became the behemoth it was designed to be ([link removed])
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Alec MacGillis’s history of the tech giant is long-form journalism at its best.

review by Celeste Kennel-Shank

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