Where does a poem come from? The immediate genesis for the following poem, which forms the introduction to my latest book of poems, Sing Me a Song, She Said, literally came from a dream, in which I remember hearing a sublime music like nothing I had heard before. When I
Mizu is a monster. That is the first thing we understand about her in Blue Eye Samurai (Netflix): that she is an onryo, a demon or a monster. Seventeenth-century Japan has recently closed its doors to the West. Europeans are not allowed to enter Japan. Any children produced from their
This article originally appeared in Public Square Magazine. Visit their site HERE. Social media has taught Christians a dangerous half-truth: if you are not using your platform to publicly denounce evil, you are complicit in evil. I understand that instinct. But in many ways the demand for denunciation does more harm than good.
Bearing the Name of Christ by Pastor Omar There are moments in ministry that remind us how desperately the world longs for hope. Living and serving in the Middle East has provided many such moments. They do not always occur in dramatic settings. More often they happen over a shared
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Clues for All Churches from Research on Very Large Churches The Hartford Institute for Religion Research consistently produces reports about congregational life in the United States that show trends important for church leaders to understand. Their Faith Communities Today research provides snapshots of congregations of all sizes across religious traditions
As some of you must already be aware, the country I come from used to boast she was “the eldest daughter of the Church,” a nation born on Christmas Day of the year 499, when King Clovis was baptized with several thousand of his axe-wielding warriors. This gave him the
Charles Portis’s True Grit, first published as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post in 1968, is a story of the open road in the American West—“an epic” and “a legend” of a story, in fact, if one gives credence to the Washington Post review published upon its release. It is