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31: Time

We’ll Have Plums in August

Beth Jarvis
March 23, 2020 / Creative Writing

Beth Jarvis writes about Sabbath, motherhood, and time.

30: Authority

Because We Are Bodies: Bread, Wine, Rice, Water

Mary Lane Potter
September 23, 2019 / Creative Writing

Mary Lane Potter treks in Laos and discovers new meaning in the sacrament of Communion.

30: Authority

The Cathars

Barbara Crooker
September 24, 2018 / Creative Writing

In this poem, Barbara Crooker reflects on the Cathars.

29: Health Care

On Thyroids and Theology: Lessons for the Body of Christ

Dave de la Fuente
September 18, 2018 / Theology

I knew nothing of how doctors think about and practice medicine when not long ago …

29: Health Care

Becoming Two

Lauren Frances Evans
August 27, 2018 / Art

Lauren Frances Evans contemplates the significance of the placenta and the creative act, examining her role as artist, mother, and person of faith.

27: Identity

Behind Blue Eyes: Consubstantiality and the Unthinkable

Russell Johnson
February 6, 2017 / Theology

Russell Johnson examines what it means to be “of one body” with Timothy McVeigh and the implications this has for self-consciously white theology.

27: Identity

Liturgies of the Body: The Jump Shot and Spiritual Practice

Howard Schaap
December 8, 2016 / Praxis

This essay finds Howard Schaap pondering the liturgical significance of a well-crafted jump shot.

26: Sport

The Body is Well

Anna Masi
September 19, 2016 / Creative Writing

Anna Masi ruminates on running, depression, and the gentle wisdom of Jean Vanier.

26: Sport

A Swim

Jennifer Stewart Fueston
April 15, 2016 / Creative Writing

In this poem, Jennifer Stewart Fueston captures some of those thoughts that arise in the meditative underwater silence.