Blog Conformity As a kid, I didn’t fit in well at school. I was awkward. I was gender messy. As you might…Ann KansfieldApril 3, 2022
Blog Overheard at AngelPAC: Conference of the Angels of the Churches In a vast, blazingly bright atrium, crowds of church angels mill about, carrying tote bags emblazoned with the AngelPAC logo.…Debra RienstraApril 2, 2022
Blog Highs and lows I don't want to be disagreeable. I may be feeling this way, as if I'm on track toward irascibility, given…James C. SchaapApril 1, 2022
Blog Cruelest Month Deer suffer and die in the spring. The graceful movement sputters and stops. The liquid limbs grow cold and stiff.Tim Van DeelenMarch 31, 2022
Blog “Have I not reason to lament” In the final poem of Four Quartets, “Little Gidding,” T.S. Eliot begins with the observation that “Midwinter spring is its own season.” Whenever…Jennifer L. HolbergMarch 30, 2022
Blog A Smaller Span We’d all agree that white, American, Protestant churches have become “nichier,” more homogeneous.Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMarch 29, 2022
Blog Belly Buttons, Belonging, and Christian Identity My 16-month-old granddaughter, Luna, is going through a phase in which she’s fixated with belly buttons. She toddles up, lifts…Brian KeepersMarch 28, 2022
Blog Fish Stories I tend to wander off a bit. It’s how my brain is wired. I get sidetracked easily, but I’ve discovered…Ann KansfieldMarch 27, 2022
Blog In Wartime, Pack Kindness I’ve grown up in an era in which camouflage was more or less another type of fabric design.Katy SundararajanMarch 26, 2022
Blog Sabbath With My Hands Isn’t counted cross-stitch just glorified paint-by-number? That’s what I thought (but would never say) when my mom would spend countless…Heidi S. De JongeMarch 25, 2022