…that animals have for millennia co-created economic value. Alive or dead, they feed us. Until very recently, humans overwhelmingly depended on them for transportation, in peace and in war. Even…
…be our best option. The Virtual Search for Compensatory Meaning When Joe Chip finally encounters Jory Miller, he confirms that he searches not simply for an explanation of the strangely…
…and he saw and believed; 9 for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples returned to their homes….
…lived most of my adult life in cities, and so had Jim. We met in Honolulu, then moved to Seattle, where we had a small backyard garden. We had hoped…
…of nocturnal visions; he sees a great sea being driven and tossed by the four winds of heaven. As he looks, four great beasts come up out of the sea,…
…In this metaphor, Protestants and Hebrews cross the Red Sea—and the sea of blood, intertwining into a single, bloody march the miraculous passage through the Red Sea with the later…
…of Martín’s story in the center. In the process, I’ve forced myself to have a reckoning with my own cradle Catholicism, “research / me-search” as you sometimes hear people say. …
In this episode of Assembly, Zac and Amaryah chat about the 2019-2020 movie season with Liam O’Donnell of the film podcast Cinepunx. They talk about Parasite, Uncut Gems, and Portrait…
…Tower of London. Empires need their ravens. They depend on them, in ways both economic and emblematic. In the Hughes poem, in facing the sea, a Crow faces the searing…
…of the Advent season—for many, a Sunday marked by the lighting of the “Joy” candle. Of course, this week’s assigned text opens with a ringing call to “sing aloud,” “shout,”…
The Assembly podcast is back for the new year with a new season and a new set of co-hosts, Zac Settle and Amaryah Shaye Armstrong. On part one of this…
12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 13 He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory…