Remembering who I am
When I was growing up, whenever I would go on a trip without the family my father would turn to me just before I left and say, “Remember who you are.” As my own children …
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Arkansas district asked to stop praying with students, distributing Bibles
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter to a southwestern Arkansas school district asking officials there to “quit imposing Christianity on elementary children.” The group sent the letter after two now-deleted social media …
Marking the passage of time every time we fail or thrive
It has been cool and slow in coming this year, but Spring feels like the true beginning of a new cycle of life even though the calendar says we started counting the days afresh five …
An AI fake won a photography contest. The artist who entered it wants to start a conversation.
“Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a… canvas into a beautiful …
I want to live a faith worth reviling
In 2016, then-future President Donald John Trump gave a speech in Sioux Center, Iowa, that would define not only his presidential campaign but the next four years of his time in office. He could shoot …
Sen. Tim Scott invokes God, faith in campaign announcement
When Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina launched his 2024 presidential exploratory committee April 12, he said the challenges of the day would take faith in God to overcome. Though he only announced an exploratory …
A life etched into the mountains
“Can you tell me what kind it is?” A rock, thrust in my face by my keen-eyed daughter, looked like the kind of shale we’d been examining for the better part of an hour. The …
Churches, seminary launch center for faith-based community organizing
Two mainline denominations have partnered to work with a seminary to create a center dedicated to helping people of faith transform the world through community and cultural organizing work that has been shaped by and …
Everything comes back to a garden
With God, it all comes back to a garden. Humanity, the Bible says, got its start in a garden, a place so perfect that everything was good to eat save one fruit. That fruit, however, …
Church, mosque and synagogue share site at Abrahamic Family House
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before — a priest, a rabbi and an imam all walk into a prayer center. But this time, it’s not a setup to a joke. A new interfaith construction …