Emerging Writers

The Problem with Angels: Confronting Racism in Hospice Care

September 20, 2021 By Zeena Regis 8 Comments

Zeena Regis tells the story of how racism complicates her experience as a hospice chaplain, and contemplates how to challenge that racism like one of the fearsome, truth-telling angels of Scripture.

A Wound and a Gift: Forgiveness and Restoration in Prison

July 26, 2021 By Catherine Hervey 3 Comments

For two men, one wrongly convicted and the other guilty of first degree murder, conversion to Christianity provides a way forward to forgiveness and restoration.

The Community’s Prayers Are My Prayers: A Life of Faith in Prison

July 22, 2021 By Catherine Hervey 3 Comments

For Christians incarcerated for first degree murder in Illinois, their faith can be a source of reconciliation and hope.

When Monsters Are Real

July 1, 2021 By J. Jioni Palmer Leave a Comment

For Black filmmakers, the horror genre illuminates the evil and terror often underlying mundane encounters in a racist society.

Taking Off the Crown of Creation

June 28, 2021 By Lea Schweitz 2 Comments

What happens when we adjust our theology to see humans as part of creation rather than at the top of it?

Husband, Father, and Living a “Religious Life”?

June 24, 2021 By Duncan Hilton 2 Comments

When I one day meet God face-to-face, will I be able to look him in the eye and say, “I heard your call. I heeded you”?

To Kneel in the Soil: Responding to a Climate Generation in Crisis

June 3, 2021 By Duncan Hilton Leave a Comment

How do we answer children's fears about the ongoing climate crisis? Maybe the best we can do is engaging them with living soil.

Reggae Lament

May 31, 2021 By J. Jioni Palmer Leave a Comment

For J. Jioni Palmer, reggae often loosens up emotions, providing an opportunity for spiritual lament in a genre known for its optimism and uplift.

"The Lenten practice of looking with complexity continues to sustain our beautiful, terrible lives, to ground our hope in the pockets of possibilities for the world as it could be, and to make possible the art of living faith in stereo."

The Devil Advises Me and Other Young White Clergy

March 4, 2021 By Duncan Hilton 6 Comments

Tweak your sermon. Update the church website. Dust your divinity school diploma. Do more self-care. And most of all, get serious.

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