Fear and Recovery in Post-Quake Haiti: An Interview with Brooke James
Nurse and aid worker Brooke James was on the ground in Port-au-Prince the day that Haiti was hit by the earthquake. A worker for Child Hope/Maison de Lumiere, James was recently featured in CNN’s...
View ArticleLuke 13:30: Tired Application
In a weary admonition, the narrator of “Luke 13:30: Tired Application” instructs us to be watchful at the end of days, to look with grim hope at the “One coming who’s casting out devils, making the...
View ArticleFailure, Queer Children, and the Kingdom of God
Despite the rhetoric of pluralism, current social, political, and economic arrangements tend toward the monolithic, primarily giving value to ways of knowing and being that align with and reinforce the...
View ArticleSplit Me Open
I am caught between dengue fever and boarding school. Circumstances beyond my control have left me for weeks without internet and no hope of connectivity in the foreseeable future. I can’t Google the...
View ArticleWaking Up with You: Notes to My Second Son
October You arrived, as babies do, in a rush of fluid and blood. The nurses responded, as they do, with a rush of skillful movement. The doctor lifted your reddened body and placed you on your mother’s...
View ArticleImpossible Authority: On Black Fathers and Black Gods
There are too many missing black fathers. That is what Barack Obama, then a presidential candidate, told a black megachurch on Chicago’s South Side. It was Father’s Day, and Obama was at once preacher...
View ArticlePrayer Life
It was not yet daylight, but Emily Rhett was up. Up and alone, or at least as alone as she could be these days, curled onto the back-porch swing with her infant son and her story. Her infant son,...
View ArticleAdrift
Since 2000, over thirty-four thousand asylum-seekers have died at sea trying to reach European shores. This is the Aegean Sea. This is the flimsy fishing boatthat sinks in the Aegean Sea. This is the...
View ArticleA Vulnerable Trust: Why the Church Shouldn’t Invest in Its Children
He called a child, whom he put among them,and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”—Matthew 18:2–3 NRSV Somewhere in our...
View ArticleOut of the Mouths of Children: On Restoring Praise
Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to...
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