Gina Burkhart is associate pastor of Landisville Mennonite Church in Landisville, ...

If someone were to run on stage at the Super Bowl halftime show, steal the mic from, say, Eminem or Snoop Dog or Rihanna, and, before security muscled them off, were to recite to the startled crowd ...

Pamela A. Lewis is a writer and a member of St. Thomas Church in New York ...

C. Andrew Doyle is the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of ...

Akram was one of Aida’s first residents, after being forced to leave the West Bank village where his people lived for generations. His fami­ly’s home was destroyed by Israeli soldiers as part of what ...

I’m not proud to admit it, but the first time I met a trans person, I felt awkward. It was 1999, and I was visiting my friend Jean in the hospital. Sitting up under a canvas of clean white sheets, she ...

The official White House account on X posts AI memes nearly every day, ranging from the almost sort of funny (Trump as pope) to the wearily didactic (a mockup of the Obama 2008 campaign poster by ...

There's a certain strand of gnosticism in this, that the digital gives us an escape from the body. These machines we all use are very discarnate—we're not present to one another. It's a sort of ...

Greenberg describes a revelation he experienced during a visit to Sri Lanka, where he met committed Christians who had left the comforts of their affluent homes in Norway to attend to the needs of ...

I am the kid who passed out in high school when the Red Cross gave a presentation about the value of donating blood. The woman hadn’t even gotten to a discussion of actual needles before my head hit ...

Newman pays particular attention to sin and belief, which merit two poem sequences of their own, comprising half the book: The Sin Sonnets (previously published as a separate chapbook) and The Space ...

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