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** Trees communicate with one another. I’m trying to listen.
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My favorite is a 100-year-old male cottonwood. I call him Grandfather.
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** Hilma af Klint’s new ways of seeing
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Years before Kandinsky, a Swedish woman created magnificent abstract paintings.
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** After the personal salvation gospel
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The world won't be saved by my prayers or virtuous desires.
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** Elaine Pagels’s lifelong search for the sacred
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Pagels vividly recounts her spiritual experiences. But she won’t let herself be bound by any tradition.
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** Promise: Essays by readers
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We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “promise.”
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** Living by the Word for Sunday, August 4
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This is a funny story. We laugh. But we're laughing at ourselves.
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** Migrants are suffering. Will increased funding help?
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A new funding law gives the Trump administration trust it hasn’t earned.
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** Sin and grace in public discourse
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“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”
David Heim interviews Serene Jones
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** Toni Morrison writes about race, religion, and her own fiction
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Our language isn’t neutral. It has history embedded within it.
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** These UMC deacons are more like doulas than circuit riders
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How Sacred Stones Ministries is bringing new ministry models to birth
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