Rev. Angie Wright’s Love Has No Borders: How Faith Leaders Resisted Alabama’s Harsh Immigration Law is a visual and written record of public protests by Alabama faith leaders after their state legislature […]
Dog Songs
“What would this world be like without dogs?” asks Mary Oliver in her newest collection of poems, Dog Songs. I, for one, do not wish to ever know the answer to […]
Sustaining Simplicity
In terms of possessions and money, what do you really need to live a good life? How much is enough? If you have less stuff, can you do more with […]
Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood
What is necessary for a writing life? This is the question that Elif Shafak, one of Turkey’s most celebrated authors, wrestles with in her spiritual memoir, Black Milk: On the Conflicting […]
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint
“It’s small, it’s surprising, and it’s a little profane, but it’s the real thing” (p. 162). Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber uses these words to speak of the way that the reign of […]
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
Food and faith are a natural combination. A central element of Christianity, after all, is taking communion, eating bread and drinking wine. This eating and drinking is embraced by Jesus […]