Comment

A magazine of public theology. Pull up a chair to our long and unruly banquet table.

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Zealots at the Gate has a new home at @Georgetown and a new season coming soon. Subscribe wherever you stream podcasts!

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“I’ve been seeing a spiritual director, a wise man with an earring and a grey ponytail, twenty years my senior, charming enough he could start his own cult, and wise enough never to do so.”
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“The invention of the alphabet inaugurated Armenia’s golden age as centres of learning revived and scholars from Alexandria to Rome journeyed to renowned schools, bringing home a wealth of translated and original works.”
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“This is precisely where non-violent resistance begins: choosing to open oneself to another person’s narrative and creating space for that narrative to exist alongside your own.”
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“The question is whether the understory can withstand the invasive growth long enough to recognize itself, find its story, and muster the nerve to grow into the light.”
https://t.co/t2zWNjGnKk

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What does it mean to support Israel? Robert Nicholson joins Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk to explore the shifting relationship between American evangelicals and the state of Israel.
https://t.co/rehTw3urqm

[stephen proctor @stephenproctor]

This one’s gonna take a minute for me to process. It still feels like it was all a dream. Probably because it was a dream gig:
Immersive projection & visual curation in the Washington National Cathedral (@WNCathedral) for @commentmag's inaugural festival “The Understory”!

[Anika FreeIndeed @justhere2loveu]

God moved at the Understory Festival. I’m in awe of how Anne Snyder gathered us with courage and wisdom from the Lord. A season of unity begins as we bring life to the world. @commentmag
Highlights: https://t.co/nnSikNKgH5

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

What I ended up saying at the Washington National Cathedral.

“See, in the darkened halls of betrayals and broken promises, see a candlelight of someone’s prayers. Refract that light in the pews and bus stops and corridors of under-ground tubes, offer your particular tender light of life, so that the future generations can see them, so as to seek their prismatic dreams in them. “

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“To see a person rightly is to have a sense of the sacred in ordinary life. So, too, the homes we inhabit, the tap water we use for cooking and cleaning, the day-to-day dishes on which we share meals with friends and family.”
https://t.co/IN7kK9VUsR

[Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk]

Over the Rhine

What a beautiful concert in the National Cathedral. @commentmag #understory

[Anika FreeIndeed @justhere2loveu]

Yesterday⁰ I spoke to a full house at the National Cathedral about picking up the mantle of MLK, Malcolm X and Abraham Lincoln! Thank you @commentmag and The Understory Festival for the opportunity!

[Luke Burgis @lukeburgis]

Grateful to the brilliant (and uncommonly kind) @angeladuckw for talking to me about The One and the Ninety-Nine at @commentmag's Understory Festival in Washington, DC this afternoon. We were in the great choir of the National Cathedral—which was fitting, given that the way in which environments, contexts, and communities shape the person, and even a single conversation, is a theme of the book. Thanks again, Angela🙏

Out in 2 weeks! Pre-order here: https://t.co/rkVArCuYgj

[Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk]

"He comes that might have life, and have it to the full."

At the National Cathedral gathering with dear colleagues for a conversation on the renewal of faith, politics, art, and culture in a time of profound rupture.

#understory @commentmag

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“Something is dying, and something is being born, and they may just be the same story. Welcome to the Understory.”
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“Dying to one’s own ideas opens up a space. I think perception is wider when the ego dies.”

Anne Snyder talks with Manuel Dürr, painter of the new Stations of the Cross in St. Peter’s Basilica.
https://t.co/8Oc7fZL4KN

[Zachary Davis @zacharysdavis]

This weekend I'll be attending the Understory Festival at the National Cathedral organized by Anne Snyder and Comment Magazine. It is going to be magical. If you'll be there, let me know!

https://t.co/CIUauNB2id

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“The question is whether the understory can withstand the invasive growth long enough to recognize itself, find its story, and muster the nerve to grow into the light.”

Anne Snyder on what this moment asks of us.
https://t.co/4OYANNGBsl

[Arthur Aghajanian @ArtAghajanian]

Thrilled to announce the publication of my essay on the sacred nature of the Armenian alphabet in @CommentMagazine. Hope it helps bring you a little into my religious tradition to see what resonates for you!
#armenian #art #christianity #spirituality

The link is in the comments.

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

We had a fascinating conversation with @lymanstoneky on the real reasons behind falling fertility. He points to the rise of a "new selfishness." Might religion be a way out?

https://t.co/FXu0cefz6E

[Matthew Kaemingk @matthewkaemingk]

Birthrates are falling dramatically all over the world.

This was a pretty interesting conversation with the demographer @lymanstoneky about the surprising political and religious implications at play.

https://t.co/RbmA3gOLOG