Reading Genesis by the novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson is occasionally aggravating, sometimes confounding, but mostly a brilliantly engaging encounter with the text. The opening
Normally, non-fiction isn’t my wheelhouse. As a middle school teacher, I tend to read books I can use in my classroom or fiction that makes
During the global COVID-19 pandemic, many church leaders and places of worship adopted or expanded virtual technologies to better allow digitally mediated worship to enter
I had never heard of Susan Cowger until I was asked to review Hawk and Songbird, her recently published books of poems, and I am
My daughter gave me a t-shirt, portraying classic white Jesus riding a velociraptor. It has some weird writing about creation and how much fun Jesus
Nineteenth-century novels are filled with women—strong, intelligent, ambitious women—looking for ways to survive in societies that seem to covet none of those three virtues for
Whoever has reflected on the relationship between scripture and doctrine will appreciate the following dilemma: a searching soul wants answers to existential questions about God,
An invitation to a kitchen table conversation is personal; it’s not a formal dinner invitation, rather an invitation to join in regular, everyday conversation with
When my boys were little and beginning to form sentences, I often prompted them to say “Please” and “Thank you”. It was the right thing
