Jill Bergkamp

Abishag Warms King David

Jill Bergkamp reflects on the voice of the voiceless sōkhenet, the bed companion of King David’s old age.

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David A. Garner

The Briefing: All-Star Game Edition

Every year Praxis editor Matthew Shedden (@sheddenm) live tweets the MLB All-Star game as well as puts together a Briefing of interesting links and articles for the midpoint of the season. If you’re made this far into the ASG Briefing but are still skeptical, Will Leitch points out a special thing about the MLB ASG: I love that the […]

Luci Shaw

Hate Invasion

In Luci Shaw’s “Hate Invasion,” anxieties, like crows, “clot” and “colonize” the mind and heart of the poet, who longs for divine answers to earth’s evils.

Joel Heng Hartse

Stars: Set Yourself on Fire

We pop-culture-engaged Christians love to claim things as our own. From The Matrix to The Simpsons to Radiohead, if there’s something not altogether evil, or spiritual and “vaguely Jesus-y,” to use Ann Lamott’s phrase, we will somehow squeeze and twist a thing until it is almost Christian. So let me be the first to claim the Canadian pop band […]