New articles from Lydia Sohn, Isaac Villegas, Yolanda Pierce, and more.

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** Finding myself in others’ words
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One of the features of good memoir (if I remember correctly from my spiritual writing class in seminary) is that it is relatable. This is something I love about the first-person essays that appear in our pages. When I first read Lydia Sohn’s reflection on stability and wanderlust ([link removed]) , I thought of when my wife and I wrestled with the decision to move to Chicago for me to take this job. Then Isaac Villegas’s tribute to his abuelo who baptized him ([link removed]) made me remember the spiritual legacy of my own grandfather.

We have also had a bevy of really insightful book reviews lately (and, accordingly, my reading list is growing to an unmanageable length). One review explores the ways that “low anthropologies” can make sense ([link removed]) of the political binary in the US. Another introduces the complicated history of evangelicals’ ([link removed]) approaches to environmental issues.

No new video, but I did appear on a podcast ([link removed]) last week, and speaking of evangelicals, on the show two of them asked me why I (and many others) left their faith tradition.

Email me: When have you seen some of yourself in another’s story?

Jon Mathieu
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** The testimony of water ([link removed])
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“To remember our baptism is to testify. We reach into our memories to notice God’s grace, to recount the communities that have made us who we are and the people who’ve extended the Spirit of Christ to us with their own hands and lives.”

by Isaac S. Villegas


** Staying in a culture of leaving ([link removed])
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“My wanderlust always came back, encouraged by daily scrolls through images of friends (or strangers I follow because I wish we were friends) starting new lives abroad or new relationships that appeared more exciting than my own.”
by Lydia Sohn


** The theological anthropologies implicit in our politics ([link removed])
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“A good portion of the conservative/liberal binary can be mapped by attending to the distinctions between high and low anthropologies.”
Matthew Stuhlmuller reviews David Zahl
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** In the Lectionary for March 19 (Lent 4A) ([link removed])
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The light of the world illumines those who are open but is opaque to those who claim powerful position.
by Lynn Jost

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** Why did conservative evangelicals turn against the environment? ([link removed])
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“Historian Neall Pogue delves deeply into the ideology and actions of conservative evangelicals on climate issues in order to understand their antipathy to ‘Christian environmental stewardship.’”

review by Robert Shaffer


** What I wished for ([link removed])
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“What should we pray for when we are both lonely and also overwhelmed by people? How should we petition when we feel too weak for the task at hand but too strong to ask for help?”

by Yolanda Pierce
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