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LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR MAY 30, TRINITY B (ISAIAH 6:1-8 Trinity Sunday is the oddest of church festivals. Unlike other holy days, which celebrate events in the life of Christ or of the church, Trinity Sunday invites us to an idea. TWO ASCENSION STORIES In the Wakefield mystery play for the Feast of the Ascension, the apostle Philip calls out to Christ: “Lord, if it be thi will, / shew vs thi fader we the pray; / we have bene with the in good and ill, / and sagh hym neuer nyght ne day.” LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR JUNE 6, ORDINARY 10B (1 SAMUEL 8:4-20) She didn’t read the fine print. Or maybe she simply chose not to believe it. Entering the second year of treatment for a cancer that could not be cured, she started talking with her family about last things. Plans for her funeral. Distribution of her estate. Last wishes. Always a realist, sheDANIEL TALLON RUEN
Daniel Tallon Ruen is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston,Illinois.
"SELVEDGE," A POEM BY SOPHIA STID We hear so much about the healing, but I want to know about after the miracle, when everyone else has gone home. The shape of the blankets left behind the body. The woman who comes to shake them out and make the bed, her arms strong from lifting the body that now walks. Eat, she said— for years—eat, carrying tray after tray into the room where she sat to rub the slackened JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, PARTY LEADERS SEEK POLICIES THAT (The Christian Science Monitor) Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s deep adoration for the Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shinto site in Japan, is no secret. He visits each January for the New Year and plans to host the 2016 summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the nearby resort city of Shima.“I believe it has something to do with his Shinto beliefs,” said Satoru THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY A progressive, ecumenical magazine based in Chicago. Loyal to the church and open to the world. CHANEQUA WALKER-BARNES JOINS COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Womanist theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes has joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as professor of practical theology and pastoral counseling. In a statement, Millie Snyder, one of the seminary’s board of trustees, said Walker-Barnes’s expertise will help equip seminarians for the work of reconciliation in both the church and the world. SIX PREDICTIONS FOR THE POST-PANDEMIC CHURCH As COVID infection rates decline and vaccination rates increase, we can envision the pandemic eventually coming to an end. Given that growing hope, it’s a good time to look at what the post-pandemic church might resemble. WHAT CHRISTIAN HOPE LOOKS LIKE DURING A PANDEMIC In chapter 27 of Revelations, Julian finds herself perplexed by the nature of sin in the world.She asks, “If sin had not been, we should all have been clean and like to our Lord, as He made us.” She continues: “I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not letted: for then, methought, all should havebeen well.”
LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR MAY 30, TRINITY B (ISAIAH 6:1-8 Trinity Sunday is the oddest of church festivals. Unlike other holy days, which celebrate events in the life of Christ or of the church, Trinity Sunday invites us to an idea. TWO ASCENSION STORIES In the Wakefield mystery play for the Feast of the Ascension, the apostle Philip calls out to Christ: “Lord, if it be thi will, / shew vs thi fader we the pray; / we have bene with the in good and ill, / and sagh hym neuer nyght ne day.” LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR JUNE 6, ORDINARY 10B (1 SAMUEL 8:4-20) She didn’t read the fine print. Or maybe she simply chose not to believe it. Entering the second year of treatment for a cancer that could not be cured, she started talking with her family about last things. Plans for her funeral. Distribution of her estate. Last wishes. Always a realist, sheDANIEL TALLON RUEN
Daniel Tallon Ruen is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston,Illinois.
"SELVEDGE," A POEM BY SOPHIA STID We hear so much about the healing, but I want to know about after the miracle, when everyone else has gone home. The shape of the blankets left behind the body. The woman who comes to shake them out and make the bed, her arms strong from lifting the body that now walks. Eat, she said— for years—eat, carrying tray after tray into the room where she sat to rub the slackened JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, PARTY LEADERS SEEK POLICIES THAT (The Christian Science Monitor) Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s deep adoration for the Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shinto site in Japan, is no secret. He visits each January for the New Year and plans to host the 2016 summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the nearby resort city of Shima.“I believe it has something to do with his Shinto beliefs,” said Satoru WHERE IS MY LOVE TO GO? I’ve had the privilege of experiencing ministry in many settings. I’ve spent time in a rust belt postindustrial community and in a commuter suburb. I’ve served in an outer-urban housing project and in a shabby-chic urban village. I’ve enjoyed a prestigious university chapel and a world TAKE AND READ: ETHICS 1 day ago · Five new books about ethics in today’s world. Wading through tough political topics like abortion, racism, and poverty, The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship (Eerdmans Press) brims with generosity and wisdom.A Reformed evangelical who has learned much from Catholic social teaching, Daniel K. Williams charts a path between many a partisan divide. "CONSERVATION CEMETERY" 1 day ago · A year since, I couldn’t find you— “you,” that is, the hard bits, the stardust and grit of you left beneath the sparkleberry tree. The find-a-grave app useless as memory, the trail flooded, the guideposts painted over. It was terrible not to find you, terrible until I did find you— “you,” that is, your name on the brass marker small as a leaf in the end-up place conserved for us FOUR GUIDELINES FOR IMPROVISING PASTORAL LEADERSHIP The coronavirus is highly contagious, easily transmittable, and much more lethal than the flu.Precautions like social distance, handwashing, sanitizing surfaces, and refraining from touching will help us “flatten the curve” and slow down the spread of the coronavirus.. Church folks commonly express care through hugging, handshakes, high fives, and shared meals—including holy communion. HOW PRINCETON SEMINARY’S SLAVERY AUDIT CREATED MOMENTS OF Still, I have hope. Not in the form of liberal optimism, but as a continual prayer for unlikely people to begin truly desiring each other. I saw glimpses of this desire emerge during Princeton Theological Seminary’s historical slavery audit, in which I participated as a task force member. 10 GUIDELINES FOR PASTORAL CARE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS Officials are arguing over whether the novel coronavirus has reached the level of pandemic, as outbreaks continue to spread globally.Meanwhile, religious leaders still must care for people—many of whom are feeling a rise in anxiety verging on panic. How can ministers, chaplains, counselors, and educators accompany people pastorally through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death? LAQUAN MCDONALD (FROM THE SERIES IN THE WAKE ), BY JARED Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager, was walking away from Chicago police in 2014 when he was shot 16 times by an officer, who was later convicted of murder on the basis of video footage suppressed by authorities. Jared Thorne’s photogram, produced from the autopsy report released by McDonald’s family, demands that we confront the palpable brutality of the young man’s execution. By DO I CONSIDER MYSELF A CHRISTIAN? As a serious Christian—humor me—I’m at home with Orthodox Jewish dogma, Hasidic dogma, Islamic dogma, godless Buddhist wisdom, and probably many other views. I WANT MORE FOR DEESHA PHILYAW’S CHURCH LADIES: A REVIEW Deesha Philyaw’s phenomenal debut collection of short stories is a page-turner, and not just for clergy who tend toward a prurient interest in church dysfunction. The title says it all. These are stories about women with secrets—and their most intriguing inner imaginings concern the churches CHARLES R. STRIETELMEIER Charles R. Strietelmeier is a retired Lutheran pastor. THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY The Death of Vivek Oji shows us what we are afraid of. Akwaeke Emezi’s stunning novel will leave you broken. It will also let the air back into your lungs. by Oluwatomisin Oredein May 10, 2021. SIX PREDICTIONS FOR THE POST-PANDEMIC CHURCH Given that growing hope, it’s a good time to look at what the post-pandemic church might resemble. Here are some predictions. First, the social and spiritual capital connected with congregational life will be increasingly valuable in a post-pandemic culture. A church’s ministry will need to be spirited and compelling, of course,especially
WHAT CHRISTIAN HOPE LOOKS LIKE DURING A PANDEMIC What Christian hope looks like during a pandemic. Living into the desired new creation is our work—and God’s promise. There was a profusion of rainbows in Montreal this spring. During the first weeks of social distancing and stay-at-home orders, an array of multicolored artwork soon covered the apartment windows in my neighborhood. CHANEQUA WALKER-BARNES JOINS COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Womanist theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes has joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as professor of practical theology and pastoral counseling. In a statement, Millie Snyder, one of the seminary’s board of trustees, said Walker-Barnes’s expertise will help equip seminarians for the work of reconciliation in both the church and the world. LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR JUNE 6, ORDINARY 10B (1 SAMUEL 8:4-20) She didn’t read the fine print. Or maybe she simply chose not to believe it. Entering the second year of treatment for a cancer that could not be cured, she started talking with her family about last things. Plans for her funeral. Distribution of her estate. Last wishes. Always a realist, she LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR MAY 30, TRINITY B (ISAIAH 6:1-8 One in three and three in one. Indivisible yet everywhere. Beyond time. Without gender. This is the God whom we conjure when we sing “Trinity.”. Isaiah describes God’s throne room, crowded with many-winged creatures, shaken by earthquake and filled with smoke. The creatures’ song ricochets from the walls, endlessly repeating asingle
TWO ASCENSION STORIES In the Wakefield mystery play for the Feast of the Ascension, the apostle Philip calls out to Christ: “Lord, if it be thi will, / shew vs thi fader we the pray; / we have bene with the in good and ill, / and sagh hym neuer nyght ne day.”. To which Jesus points out that whoever sees him sees the Father—but a moment later Jesus is gone,and
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Tallon. Ruen. @RuenPD. Daniel Tallon Ruen is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston, Illinois. Article type. - Any - Magazine article/poem Blog post Review. "SELVEDGE," A POEM BY SOPHIA STID We hear so much about the healing, but I want to know about after the miracle, when everyone else has gone home. The shape of the blankets left behind the body. The woman who comes to shake them out and make the bed, her arms strong from lifting the body that now walks. Eat, she said— for years—eat, carrying tray after tray into the room where she sat to rub the slackened JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, PARTY LEADERS SEEK POLICIES THAT (The Christian Science Monitor) Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s deep adoration for the Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shinto site in Japan, is no secret. He visits each January for the New Year and plans to host the 2016 summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the nearby resort city of Shima.“I believe it has something to do with his Shinto beliefs,” said Satoru THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY The Death of Vivek Oji shows us what we are afraid of. Akwaeke Emezi’s stunning novel will leave you broken. It will also let the air back into your lungs. by Oluwatomisin Oredein May 10, 2021. SIX PREDICTIONS FOR THE POST-PANDEMIC CHURCH Given that growing hope, it’s a good time to look at what the post-pandemic church might resemble. Here are some predictions. First, the social and spiritual capital connected with congregational life will be increasingly valuable in a post-pandemic culture. A church’s ministry will need to be spirited and compelling, of course,especially
WHAT CHRISTIAN HOPE LOOKS LIKE DURING A PANDEMIC What Christian hope looks like during a pandemic. Living into the desired new creation is our work—and God’s promise. There was a profusion of rainbows in Montreal this spring. During the first weeks of social distancing and stay-at-home orders, an array of multicolored artwork soon covered the apartment windows in my neighborhood. CHANEQUA WALKER-BARNES JOINS COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Womanist theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes has joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as professor of practical theology and pastoral counseling. In a statement, Millie Snyder, one of the seminary’s board of trustees, said Walker-Barnes’s expertise will help equip seminarians for the work of reconciliation in both the church and the world. LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR JUNE 6, ORDINARY 10B (1 SAMUEL 8:4-20) She didn’t read the fine print. Or maybe she simply chose not to believe it. Entering the second year of treatment for a cancer that could not be cured, she started talking with her family about last things. Plans for her funeral. Distribution of her estate. Last wishes. Always a realist, she LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR MAY 30, TRINITY B (ISAIAH 6:1-8 One in three and three in one. Indivisible yet everywhere. Beyond time. Without gender. This is the God whom we conjure when we sing “Trinity.”. Isaiah describes God’s throne room, crowded with many-winged creatures, shaken by earthquake and filled with smoke. The creatures’ song ricochets from the walls, endlessly repeating asingle
TWO ASCENSION STORIES In the Wakefield mystery play for the Feast of the Ascension, the apostle Philip calls out to Christ: “Lord, if it be thi will, / shew vs thi fader we the pray; / we have bene with the in good and ill, / and sagh hym neuer nyght ne day.”. To which Jesus points out that whoever sees him sees the Father—but a moment later Jesus is gone,and
DANIEL TALLON RUEN
Tallon. Ruen. @RuenPD. Daniel Tallon Ruen is the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston, Illinois. Article type. - Any - Magazine article/poem Blog post Review. "SELVEDGE," A POEM BY SOPHIA STID We hear so much about the healing, but I want to know about after the miracle, when everyone else has gone home. The shape of the blankets left behind the body. The woman who comes to shake them out and make the bed, her arms strong from lifting the body that now walks. Eat, she said— for years—eat, carrying tray after tray into the room where she sat to rub the slackened JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, PARTY LEADERS SEEK POLICIES THAT (The Christian Science Monitor) Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s deep adoration for the Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shinto site in Japan, is no secret. He visits each January for the New Year and plans to host the 2016 summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the nearby resort city of Shima.“I believe it has something to do with his Shinto beliefs,” said Satoru "CONSERVATION CEMETERY" 1 day ago · A year since, I couldn’t find you— “you,” that is, the hard bits, the stardust and grit of you left beneath the sparkleberry tree. The find-a-grave app useless as memory, the trail flooded, the guideposts painted over. It was terrible not to find you, terrible until I did find you— “you,” that is, your name on the brass marker small as a leaf in the end-up place conserved for us AS THE WORLD REOPENS POST-PANDEMIC, HOW WILL WE FIND OUR May 19, 2021 issue. This is a small trepidation in the scheme of things. There’s so much to look forward to in a post-pandemic world: hugs, unmasked faces, gathering in churches and classrooms again. But our worries about how to reenter the world of classrooms and offices are reminders that the post-pandemic world also looms up as achallenge.
WHERE IS MY LOVE TO GO? I’ve had the privilege of experiencing ministry in many settings. I’ve spent time in a rust belt postindustrial community and in a commuter suburb. I’ve served in an outer-urban housing project and in a shabby-chic urban village. I’ve enjoyed a prestigious university chapel and a world TAKE AND READ: ETHICS 1 day ago · Five new books about ethics in today’s world. Wading through tough political topics like abortion, racism, and poverty, The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship (Eerdmans Press) brims with generosity and wisdom.A Reformed evangelical who has learned much from Catholic social teaching, Daniel K. Williams charts a path between many a partisan divide. WHERE MY FAITH AND MY WORK AS AS SCIENTIST MEET Thursday mornings, I’m the first one in the lab. The room never sleeps. I enter to the hum of –20° freezers, eerie blue light from the ultraviolet hood, the whir of thermocyclers digesting DNA. I turn on the lights, don purple latex gloves, and begin. Sometimes I extract genes: clip STAFF | THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY Editor/publisher Peter W. Marty Managing editor Steve Thorngate Senior editors Amy Frykholm Elizabeth Palmer Associate editor Jessica Mesman News editor Dawn Araujo-Hawkins Community engagement editor Katara Patton Audience development editor Trice Gibbons Poetry editor Jill Peláez Baumgaertner Editorial assistant Rachel Pyle Advertising manager Heidi Baumgaertner Art director Daniel C STAYING CONNECTED DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC COVID-19 is laying bare what the church has long confessed: all people are connected. The second wave of Spanish flu closures hit some congregations just as Advent was promising to give way to Christmas. On December 19, 1918, the Century noted one church’s plans to leave Sunday school materials, booklets from the local missionary society,and
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We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “scar.” December 28, 2020 . Movement: Essays by readers 10 GUIDELINES FOR PASTORAL CARE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS Officials are arguing over whether the novel coronavirus has reached the level of pandemic, as outbreaks continue to spread globally.Meanwhile, religious leaders still must care for people—many of whom are feeling a rise in anxiety verging on panic. How can ministers, chaplains, counselors, and educators accompany people pastorally through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death? FOUR GUIDELINES FOR IMPROVISING PASTORAL LEADERSHIP Here are four ways to improvise and reimagine pastoral leadership in a time of pandemic. 1. Bring people together while keeping social distance. At the top of the list of things we must re-imagine is our most tried and true way of being the church. In a pandemic, we cannot call the community together to meet physically in one space forworship
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY A progressive, ecumenical magazine based in Chicago. Loyal to the church and open to the world. LOG IN | THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY Enter the password that accompanies your e-mail. CHANEQUA WALKER-BARNES JOINS COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Womanist theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes has joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as professor of practical theology and pastoral counseling. In a statement, Millie Snyder, one of the seminary’s board of trustees, said Walker-Barnes’s expertise will help equip seminarians for the work of reconciliation in both the church and the world. LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR JUNE 6, ORDINARY 10B (1 SAMUEL 8:4-20) She didn’t read the fine print. Or maybe she simply chose not to believe it. Entering the second year of treatment for a cancer that could not be cured, she started talking with her family about last things. Plans for her funeral. Distribution of her estate. Last wishes. Always a realist, she LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR MAY 30, TRINITY B (ISAIAH 6:1-8 Trinity Sunday is the oddest of church festivals. Unlike other holy days, which celebrate events in the life of Christ or of the church, Trinity Sunday invites us to an idea. TWO ASCENSION STORIES In the Wakefield mystery play for the Feast of the Ascension, the apostle Philip calls out to Christ: “Lord, if it be thi will, / shew vs thi fader we the pray; / we have bene with the in good and ill, / and sagh hym neuer nyght ne day.” MAY 9, EASTER 6B (JOHN 15:9–17) What would the insurance-mandated boundary trainings that I’ve attended make of Jesus’ intimacy with his disciples? Those trainings always emphasize that, in addition to avoiding inappropriate romantic liaisons with parishioners, we should also avoid putting our churchmembers in a
SPIRITUAL FREEDOM IN CONCRETE FORM (ACTS 1:15-17, 21-26 To receive these posts by e-mail each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. The body language of the church communicates the gospel—through the movements of the body of Christ, the way people get together and worship God and offer their lives as a blessing for "SELVEDGE," A POEM BY SOPHIA STID We hear so much about the healing, but I want to know about after the miracle, when everyone else has gone home. The shape of the blankets left behind the body. The woman who comes to shake them out and make the bed, her arms strong from lifting the body that now walks. Eat, she said— for years—eat, carrying tray after tray into the room where she sat to rub the slackened JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, PARTY LEADERS SEEK POLICIES THAT (The Christian Science Monitor) Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s deep adoration for the Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shinto site in Japan, is no secret. He visits each January for the New Year and plans to host the 2016 summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the nearby resort city of Shima.“I believe it has something to do with his Shinto beliefs,” said Satoru THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY A progressive, ecumenical magazine based in Chicago. Loyal to the church and open to the world. LOG IN | THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY Enter the password that accompanies your e-mail. CHANEQUA WALKER-BARNES JOINS COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Womanist theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes has joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as professor of practical theology and pastoral counseling. In a statement, Millie Snyder, one of the seminary’s board of trustees, said Walker-Barnes’s expertise will help equip seminarians for the work of reconciliation in both the church and the world. LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR JUNE 6, ORDINARY 10B (1 SAMUEL 8:4-20) She didn’t read the fine print. Or maybe she simply chose not to believe it. Entering the second year of treatment for a cancer that could not be cured, she started talking with her family about last things. Plans for her funeral. Distribution of her estate. Last wishes. Always a realist, she LECTIONARY COLUMN FOR MAY 30, TRINITY B (ISAIAH 6:1-8 Trinity Sunday is the oddest of church festivals. Unlike other holy days, which celebrate events in the life of Christ or of the church, Trinity Sunday invites us to an idea. TWO ASCENSION STORIES In the Wakefield mystery play for the Feast of the Ascension, the apostle Philip calls out to Christ: “Lord, if it be thi will, / shew vs thi fader we the pray; / we have bene with the in good and ill, / and sagh hym neuer nyght ne day.” MAY 9, EASTER 6B (JOHN 15:9–17) What would the insurance-mandated boundary trainings that I’ve attended make of Jesus’ intimacy with his disciples? Those trainings always emphasize that, in addition to avoiding inappropriate romantic liaisons with parishioners, we should also avoid putting our churchmembers in a
SPIRITUAL FREEDOM IN CONCRETE FORM (ACTS 1:15-17, 21-26 To receive these posts by e-mail each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. The body language of the church communicates the gospel—through the movements of the body of Christ, the way people get together and worship God and offer their lives as a blessing for "SELVEDGE," A POEM BY SOPHIA STID We hear so much about the healing, but I want to know about after the miracle, when everyone else has gone home. The shape of the blankets left behind the body. The woman who comes to shake them out and make the bed, her arms strong from lifting the body that now walks. Eat, she said— for years—eat, carrying tray after tray into the room where she sat to rub the slackened JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, PARTY LEADERS SEEK POLICIES THAT (The Christian Science Monitor) Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s deep adoration for the Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shinto site in Japan, is no secret. He visits each January for the New Year and plans to host the 2016 summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the nearby resort city of Shima.“I believe it has something to do with his Shinto beliefs,” said Satoru LOG IN | THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY Enter the password that accompanies your e-mail.READERS WRITE
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WHERE IS MY LOVE TO GO? I’ve had the privilege of experiencing ministry in many settings. I’ve spent time in a rust belt postindustrial community and in a commuter suburb. I’ve served in an outer-urban housing project and in a shabby-chic urban village. I’ve enjoyed a prestigious university chapel and a world WHAT CHRISTIAN HOPE LOOKS LIKE DURING A PANDEMIC In chapter 27 of Revelations, Julian finds herself perplexed by the nature of sin in the world.She asks, “If sin had not been, we should all have been clean and like to our Lord, as He made us.” She continues: “I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not letted: for then, methought, all should havebeen well.”
WHERE MY FAITH AND MY WORK AS AS SCIENTIST MEET 1 day ago · Thursday mornings, I’m the first one in the lab. The room never sleeps. I enter to the hum of –20° freezers, eerie blue light from the ultraviolet hood, the whir of thermocyclers digesting DNA. I turn on the lights, don purple latex gloves, and begin. Sometimes I extract genes: clip CHARLES R. STRIETELMEIER Charles R. Strietelmeier is a retired Lutheran pastor. I WANT MORE FOR DEESHA PHILYAW’S CHURCH LADIES: A REVIEW Deesha Philyaw’s phenomenal debut collection of short stories is a page-turner, and not just for clergy who tend toward a prurient interest in church dysfunction. The title says it all. These are stories about women with secrets—and their most intriguing inner imaginings concern the churches AS A THEOLOGY STUDENT, I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE CHURCH During times of turbulence in politics, culture, and religious life, it’s tempting to hold tightly to current convictions. Allowing a change of one’s mind or heart can be difficult work. With this in mind, we have resumed a Century series published at intervals since 1939, in which we ask JAMES MARTIN OFFERS A PRIMER FOR PRAYER: A REVIEW OF The tradition of writing prayer guides reaches back to the early centuries of the church, to Origen and Evagrius and to the many treatises on the Lord’s Prayer by church fathers. The tradition has continued into recent decades, with popular books like Richard J. Foster’s Celebration of DisJump to navigation
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