Issue 33: Reimagination

Reception or Consumption in the Age of Hybrid Church

N. Ammon Smith
January 5, 2022 / Praxis

N. Ammon Smith asks how we avoid becoming consumers in an age of digital ecclesiologies.

Antebellum Protestants, Reality TV, and the Contemporary White Church

Rose Schrott
December 29, 2021 / Praxis

Rose Schrott explores how The Bachelor and American antebellum conceptions of sin invite the white church to reimagine sin and rethink racism.

Underground Railroad

Julie L. Moore
December 20, 2021 / Creative Writing

Julie L. Moore imagines what the underground railroad might say if it could speak.

To Interpret Scripture Intelligently: The Bible, Civil Rights, and Human Dignity

Tejai Beulah
December 16, 2021 / Theology

Tejai Beulah explores US Christianity from the perspective of a formerly enslaved grandmother.

The Night Mary Gave Birth: A Christmas Eve Liturgy

Claire K. McKeever-Burgett
December 15, 2021 / Theology

Claire K. McKeever-Burgett reimagines the traditional Christmas Eve liturgy from Mary’s perspective.

Cultural Infusion

Caroline Stowell
December 8, 2021 / Praxis

Caroline Stowell learns the difference between loving and converting.

Rapture

Sonja Livingston
December 1, 2021 / Creative Writing

Sonja Livingston contemplates junior high, Blondie, and what it means to be saved.

Say Trinity

Heather M. Surls
September 9, 2021 / Creative Writing

Heather M. Surls wrestles with untamable glory and mystery.

The New Communion

Shelby Poulin
September 6, 2021 / Creative Writing

Shelby Poulin imagines church, humbled and stripped-back.