According to my mother, there are two unique forms of grief that everyone touched by war understands. There’s the grief associated with the loss of human life—through bombings and brutal combat,
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Jelani Cobb has written, for The New Yorker, that the Reverend Dr. William Barber is a man “driven by a fugitive hope that an ancestral breach might finally be cemented,” and is “charismatic,
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Churches are usually packed this week, the holiest on the Christian calendar. But this year, with very few exceptions, they are empty. And not just in America.

Passover is about how a people who stay steadfast in hope can be liberated as a community from Mitzrayim, "a narrow place." Easter is the death of one paradigm and the rising of another. Ramadan
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When Blaise Pascal said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” he clearly didn’t foresee the coronavirus. But one complication of the virus, and
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Norman Garmezy, a developmental psychologist and clinician at the University of Minnesota, met thousands of children in his four decades of research. But one boy in particular stuck with him. He
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David Platt is the lead pastor of McLean Bible Church in metropolitan Washington, D.C. Before covid-19, I would speak every Sunday before thousands of people gathered for church from across the
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Churches across America have managed to get around bans on public gathering by moving their worship services online, but technology provides only partial solutions. In addition to presiding at
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Turning outward to one another as the coronavirus locks us down. Many years ago, there was a debate at my rural church about whether the pastor needed a cellular telephone for his ministry. They
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