A stranger finds grace in a message of judgement.
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** When a father and husband walked out, grace called him home
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I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.
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** A congregation’s commitment to live out “We do”
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We say these words a lot. Lately I’ve noticed what it looks like when we follow through.
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** Has family become an idol?
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The Bible gives no sense that the family is an end in itself.
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** Driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants benefit everybody
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New Jersey just became the 14th state to offer them.
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** Living by the Word for January 6, Epiphany of the Lord
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Genealogies suggest a beautiful inevitability even amid political impossibility.
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** What if we treated all of creation—plants and stars, soil and rivers—as our kin?
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Biblical scholar Mari Joerstad and indigenous activist Nick Estes challenge our human-centered worldview.
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** Queen and Slim challenges assumptions about race, justice, and what matters
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Melinda Matsoukas’s film rolls terror and hope into one story.
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** Lapse: Essays by readers
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We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Lapse.”
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** The Sons of Confederate Veterans want their due
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They’re wrong.
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