Mother Mary and a Post-Traumatic Ecclesiology of Grief
Emilie Grosvenor draws on Mary and the early church to meditate on the loss of a loved one.
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Reception or Consumption in the Age of Hybrid Church
N. Ammon Smith asks how we avoid becoming consumers in an age of digital ecclesiologies.
The New Communion
Shelby Poulin imagines church, humbled and stripped-back.
Scattered Notes: History
Jeff Gundy searches the past for signs and storms, for what shines and glows and glitters.
On the Condition of Rural America
Jeff Gundy remembers an emotionally charged evening in the church of his youth.
Ekklesia as Open Space: Responding to the Church’s Power Problem
Steven G. Ogden writes about the seduction of power.
Holy Rolling
Susan Carlson considers the intersection of faith, God, and patriarchy.
The Black Church and the Habitus of Resistance: An Ethnographic Study of Religious Practice and Social Change
Social change does not happen in a vacuum. Nor is social change the effect of crises, of those extreme moments in which the status quo is radically disrupted by, for example, mass protests (or riots) in response to state violence against civilians, flagrant judicial malfeasance, or governmental monetary misappropriation. Although crises may historically mark a […]
Words I Couldn’t Say
I. Breast, n. either of the pair of mammary glands extending from the front of the chest in pubescent and adult human females and some other mammals the seat of emotion and thought[1] When my breasts started to develop in early puberty, I thought I had cancer. On a family visit to my grandparents’ […]
