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Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros: Poems to pray in a pandemic
Poetry can give us words when we are struggling to find them, says a poet and activist.
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Mark Anthony Neal: Popular culture has something to say -- and Christian leaders should listen
The historical connection between black popular culture and the black church might be waning in some ways, but powerful messages are still being preached, says the professor and author.
A portion of the North Star window at Chicago's New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church. It represents the great migration of African Americans leaving the South and includes images of the church's longest-serving pastors. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers
Proclaiming the liberation narrative of God through church art
A Chicago church has installed a trio of stained-glass windows to help its members reclaim their past, honor their present and look ahead to their future.
"The Resurrection," an illumination of John 20 by Donald Jackson from The Saint John’s Bible. All images courtesy of Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copyright 2002. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: Mary Magdalene's perspective: Reflecting resurrection
The spiritual practice of “divine seeing” invites us to look deeply and to question. How might you view the world differently from a place of greater focus and openness to new perspectives?
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Alisha Lola Jones: Assumptions made about black worship leaders have history and do harm
The ethnomusicologist identifies how the stereotype of a flamboyant choir director changes someone’s gift into something to fear.
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Voting for our own souls
Christians must remain engaged for the sake of the country and the integrity of their own faith, writes an author and activist.
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Christian Wiman: Making art is an expression of faith
The poet and professor speaks about the impermanence of words and the faith that compels poets to practice anyway.
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Shea Tuttle: What can Fred Rogers teach us about theology?
Fred Rogers’ faith wasn’t perfect, but his view of the world offered mercy, love and grace, says the author of the book “Exactly As You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers.”
Artists Caleb Clark, Christopher Holt and Jill Hooper compare a tracing of preliminary drawings to the final composition of the fresco at Haywood Street Congregation. Holt is an artist trained in making frescoes; Clark and Hooper assisted him in the two-year-long project. Photos by John Warner/Warner Photography
A church's fresco project shows that everyone has sacred worth
A church dedicated to radical hospitality and welcome creates a fresco that permanently enshrines those values and the faces of those it serves.
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Cleve Tinsley IV: Black Protestants have a unique relationship with science
In trying to expand definitions of religious expression in the black community, the religious studies scholar says black Protestants can offer insight into collaboration between faith and science.