Brother Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell's recent post on The Twelve, Slouching Toward Augustine, ignited some cognitive dissonance for me. (And cognitive dissonance…
Heidi S. De JongeOctober 16, 2019
The curmudgeonly journalist H.L. Mencken pronounced Puritanism as the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. In popular culture,…
Rebecca KoerselmanOctober 14, 2019
For my three-year-old daughter, Hazel, there is no place like a bathroom for theological conversation. Feet dangling off the edge…
Jen Holmes CurranOctober 13, 2019
Maybe that’s what this conference was: one sliver of the church of refugia.
Debra RienstraOctober 12, 2019
Religious visions were everywhere in the years preceding the Civil War. Boom towns out west here may have been hell…
James C. SchaapOctober 11, 2019
There are trees in the Olympic Peninsula whose roots are suspended in the air -- like the tree is standing…
Kate KooymanOctober 10, 2019
Tomorrow, October 10, is World Mental Health Day. The initiative, sponsored by the World Health Organization, encourages folks to take…
Jennifer L. HolbergOctober 9, 2019
"We worshipped Jesus instead of following him on his same path. We made Jesus into a mere religion instead of…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellOctober 8, 2019
Makoto Fujimura operates on a different plane than I do. His art is exhibited worldwide, best-selling author David Brooks refers…
Jeff MunroeOctober 7, 2019
