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“The cross demands that we join in God’s eternal mission to create a loving and just world.”

– Our new Voices columnist, Kelly Brown Douglas

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“It is not just the words that Jeremiah speaks that make him a prophet. It is his willingness to share in the judgment, in the lamentation, in the exile.”

– Diane Roth

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“Like most young men his age, my son is caught in the crosshairs of our shifting ideas about violence and masculinity, and Cobra Kai taps into this.”

– @kathrynreklis

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Amy Leach playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of life that she found later.

Review by @amyfryk:
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“‘Who is God?’ has become somewhat of a daily question for me, a kind of centering I’ve needed as God and Christianity and the Bible are invoked alongside policies of death and confinement and deportation and exclusion.”

– Brian Bantum

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“We need to speak out. We need to say, for example, that mass deportation is against our gospel values and our baptismal covenant. We need to not shrink back or worry.”

– Martin Dickinson, in an interview with @olivalejandra_

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“Theological study, if we’re doing it right, doesn’t avoid the crises of our world. It interrogates them at the deepest level.”

– Andrew Packman

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“To trace human work through gratitude to grace is pretty standard Lutheran fare. Many at Holden Village add a critical third piece: the gift of God’s creation and in return our care for this gift.”

– Jason Mahn

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How shall we render to Caesar?

Richard Lischer offers a gospel-centered call for faithful resistance and reconciliation.

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Journalist @joeberg documents Elie Wiesel’s work, his activism, and the belief in God that he never fully renounced.

Read the review by Charles Scriven:
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“What if you’re facing an emergency, your fight-or-flight response has been triggered, and you’ve been conditioned since childhood to call the police—even if your thinking on policing has since changed?”

– the Christian Century editors

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“The sacraments are depth charges in the complacent waterways of the church, disturbing sediment and creating new channels.”

– Rachel Mann

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“To steady ourselves we’ll need to find each other, to make room for one another around a table, in our living rooms, at church.”

– Isaac Villegas

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“No one from 16th-century Anabaptism lived long enough to write a systematic theology.”

– Melissa Florer-Bixler

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“Pressing into our sanctified imagination ushers us beyond a faith that already makes sense to us.”

– Charisse R. Tucker

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“There came a child once / who sang God’s peace, / a potent “all is well,” / though nothing was, / piped in a small voice / in the middle of a dark night / with no promise of dawn.”

– Read Kathleen L. Housley’s full poem:
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Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, or Imam Tay as he is affectionately known, demonstrates that friendship across religious difference can elicit personal and social transformation.

Review by Rafia Amina Khader: https://t.co/jl2JPCH4XO
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“I was struck by the contrast between the clarity and forthrightness of the students’ activism and the response of the broader church.”

– Emilee Walker-Cornetta

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“I predict that academic theology will continue to show a greater interest in the topic of cooking. But I fear that it will be an interest abstracted from the actual people who have been responsible for cooking for most of human history.”

– @kvslice

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