…not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. 27And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind…
…that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28 For ‘In him we live…
…Twenty years ago, my neighborhood in Pittsburgh was left for dead by developers and city planners. Trapped in stories of decline prevalent in rust-belt cities. But a collaboration between city…
…11, 2021 Dear Tyler, What does it mean to write a letter to the dead? The epistle form dissents from prevailing genres in our fields. It is particular, stamped with…
…in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.) The two nations continue their tortured relationship, with peace talks currently deadlocked over the same familiar problems, based on the contradictory goals of the…
…the story of the beginning of the Babylonian Exile, when the Kingdom of Judah effectively ceased to exist, causing seismic upheavals in the life of Yahweh’s people. The dead littering…
…published the theory of general relativity not long after in 1905. And yet, that they are both symptoms of a shared tradition—a public culture of the living and the dead—would…
…of religion in public can incur or cause real harm. I used to think that the issue here is fundamentally one of poetics, of translational imagination, of a search for…
…Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is…
…a recognition that the interpretive frames that we start out with – however theological – may well not be the ones that remain when we, by force of deadlines, must…
With Osama bin Laden dead, it is worth asking if now is the time for the United States to get out of Afghanistan. President Obama, however, has shown no sign…
…quasi-moonscape, which defines the southern sector of the Texas Panhandle and with its multitude of far-flung, decrepit, and skeletally populated county seats strewn from horizon to horizon has functioned as…