An Excerpt from “Sacred Belonging”
We got the news late one Sunday morning in mid-July that my father-in-law had died unexpectedly.
The phone rang loudly that day. Not only did the n...
Praying with the Street Church of Radical Forgiveness
Praying with the Street Church of Radical Forgiveness
by Adam Bucko
from his book Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide
Each year when we commemo...
Remembering We Can Fly
Video Produced by Art Hooker. Mixed and Mastered by Jay Kale. Co-produced by Lisa Sharon Harper and Andre Henry, performed by Andre and written by L...
Book Review of Erin Jean Warde’s, “Sober Spirituality”
Melanie Springer Mock
Review of Erin Jean Warde, Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol (Brazos Press, 2023)
In so...
Excerpt from “American Idolatry”
In the summer of 2021, the unmarked graves of hundreds of Indigenous children were uncovered near a Christian boarding school in Saskatchewan, Canada....
“Yehoshua the Rabbi”, An excerpt from “A God Named Josh”
“Yehoshua the Rabbi”, An excerpt from A God Named Josh, chapter 4, pages 45-47
It is important to note that Yehoshua—Jesus’ given Hebrew name—w...
An Excerpt from Downstairs Church: Finding Hope in the Grit of Addiction and Trauma Recovery
An Excerpt from Downstairs Church: Finding Hope in the Grit of Addiction and Trauma Recovery,
by Caroline Beidler, MSW
(Published here with permissi...
Excerpt from “He Called Me Sister: A True Story of Finding Humanity on Death Row”
I hadn’t even realized that, although we had visited in various combinations at random times, we had not all four been there together for a while. He ...
Excerpt from “More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew”
Excerpted from MORE THAN I IMAGINED © 2023 by John Blake. Published by Convergent, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC....
“TELL THE REST” an excerpt
Excerpt from Tell the Rest, by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
In this excerpt from a much longer scene, Delia returns to the church and office of the pastor who...