grace

Racial reconciliation and the parable of the Good Samaritan are both centered on rightly defining who owns what.

After two decades of living under an overpass, drug abuse, and self-loathing, a man’s life is transformed through Restoration Ministries, a Christian residential recovery program in Illinois.

n this poem, Caitlin Mackenzie poetically demonstrates that violence causes a diminished view of humanity and creation, and thus we must constantly seek to see wholeness.

In this essay, Scott Small describes surprising encounters of the sacred in the music of Thelonious Monk.

In this poem, Janet Sunderland powerfully connects an encounter with the natural world to the everyday darkness of death and war and hopelessness.

Call me naïve. I don’t understand how a person, political party, or cultural movement can sustain rage for any length of time, let alone for months and years. But we are living in a day of sustained rage—political animosity, culture wars, national stereotyping, and religious bigotry. One need only flip from one radio talk show […]