The Archive
Year: 2013
God doesn’t always play well on Broadway
When is God a smash on Broadway and when is the divine a cosmic flop?
Happy birthday, Søren
Søren Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday is May 5th. Jeffery Frank says that his greatest contribution may be how we communicate today.
Prayer and the focused imagination
T.H. Luhrmann describes meeting people who had an auditory experience of God. Were they crazy or more intensely prayerful? She speculates that prayer both guides and disciplines the imagination.
Suicide among men rose in the last decade
The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, the government reported Thursday.
Abundant hope can overcome climate despair
The Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Church of Sweden (Lutheran) committed to “leading a conversion of epic scale, a metanoia, or communal spiritual movement away from sin and despair toward the renewal and healing of all creation.”
More than a memorial
Bishop Tom Shaw of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts makes a visit to the Boston Marathon memorial site and is moved to wonder how we’re
Bishop warns Catholics against attending same-sex weddings
A few weeks ago, I traveled to the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, in the state of Washington, to witness the state-sanctioned, church-blessed wedding of my
What is the true measure of faithful generosity?
You may have seen this meme making the rounds on Facebook, Reddit or Imgur in the last couple of days. It’s a photo of a