“Becoming a parent made the words of 1 John all the more understandable and meaningful to me.”

– Josh Scott

#lectionary
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“just above the three short blocks / of my little town, the oldest graves, / dating from the early 1800s, are dark / and covered with lichen. ...”

– read Barbara Crooker’s poem

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“Palestinian Lutheran pastor and theologian Mitri Raheb draws a bold line connecting the settler colonialism of Western Christendom with the application of Zionism in Israel and the Palestinian territories.”

– review by Emilee Walker-Cornetta

Orbis Books
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“As I saw this procession taking place, my imagination went to what the liturgy might be saying to this divided country.”

– Samuel Wells

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“Church musicians are busy fighting for the congregation to find its voice, yearning for each and every soul to discover that singing is sacred duty.”

– Peter W. Marty

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For our new Trending Topics series, Jessica Mesman reviews five books on Israel and Jewish identity.

Fortress Press Univ Nebraska Press Alfred A. Knopf Ayin Press Isabel Kershner christiancentury.org/review/books/t…

“One theme that emerges in Modern Mystics is that authentic modern mysticism is not about ecstatic visions, supernatural miracles, or paranormal phenomena.”

– Robert Cathey reviews Bernard McGinn

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Many thanks to theChristianCentury for introducing the three newly-published Christian gospel fragments to a broader audience! I'm trying on my 'journalist' hat here for the first time; hopefully I've done them justice.🤠christiancentury.org/features/early…

“Even if this new published papyrus fragment is not a portion of the Gospel of Mary, it is significant: it shows that multiple ancient Christian groups identified someone named Mary as receiving special revelation from Jesus.”

– Dr. Elizabeth Schrader Polczer

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“The lawsuit accuses Annunciation House of ‘human smuggling.’ The guests I welcomed were brought to us by CBP and ICE, migrants who self-reported themselves to Border Patrol in hope of seeking asylum in the States.”

– Emmy Brett

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“Jesus’ scars tell a story of refusing violence in favor of peacemaking and returning love in the face of hatred.”

– Josh Scott

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My latest for The Christian Century. Church nerds let's talk 🤓📓

“Looking back, I realized Scanzoni had been nourishing my growth not just as a writer and scholar but as a person who, like her, worked at the margins, negotiating the in-between spaces of evangelical and mainline traditions.”

– Kendra Weddle

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“When describing the earliest Jesus followers and what bound them together in community, Luke doesn’t list the doctrinal positions they held in common.”

– Josh Scott

#lectionary
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“Luci Shaw’s new collection is a magical world of daily bread where ordinary objects trespass their boundaries.”

– review by Diane Glancy

Paraclete Press
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“Passages like Psalm 127 invite us to sit with a foundational truth we ignore at our peril: the work is God’s. The work is always God’s.”

– Debie Thomas

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“The mystics tell us that the divine spark is in every single being, and I would say again, the human being as well as other living beings.”

– Christine Valters Paintner in an interview with David Dault is editing today (He, His)

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“By cutting, braiding, pearling, chain-linking, and forming spheres from Bible pages, Linda Ekstrom summons viewers to ponder the sacred text via physical and tactile means.”

– art commentary from Gordon Fuglie

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“The real problem with self-care is that it can’t actually make our jobs better.”

– Benjamin J. Dueholm

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“The Zone of Interest interrogates the desire to bear witness that animates the Holocaust movie as a genre.”

– Mac Loftin

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