Essays

Susan Samanya

I can’t stop thinking about her, and I pray for her almost nightly. I worry about her, and I feel a love for her that…

Which dream?

How well has the American Dream worked out for you? Richard Stearns suggests that the great American Dream ultimately fails because it was never intended…

Not AWOL

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence…

Where were you when…?

Every generation is marked by moments that are so impacting that people ever after remember exactly where they were when the moment occurred. For some…

Nonnegotiable commitments

One two-word phrase stood out to me from this week’s The Hole in our Gospel reading: “nonnegotiable commitments.”[1] What are yours? What are ours? Church…