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In the beginning, God gave birth, and it was really hard.

A poem about the life/death/life cycle of the seasons and those we love.

The trauma of God is both God in trauma (i.e., God on the cross) and God as trauma (i.e., God as the cross), crossing one another to place God sous rature (i.e., under the cross), where God becomes no more and no less than a word—but the only word bespeaking a truly universal human community.

Certain strands of friendship can cross distances, but others—regretfully—are broken.

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 […]

Our Praxis editor reviews a new book by John Sexton, Baseball as a Road to God.

God’s longings for us always seem connected to a bigger picture that includes others.

In “Water Mission,” Jillena Rose offers a narrative of a childhood in Saigon, where she learned the prayer of “women in white silk laughing, letting water run over their fingers . . . another sound for praise.”

Katie Manning explores the resonance between the beating of a heart and the insistent pulses of prayer.