by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | May 21, 2026 | Opinion
Coming at the end of the school academic year, when many schools are winding down, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month is often overlooked. For Christians, it also coincides with the spring celebration of Pentecost, sometimes leading to it...
by Ken Sehested | May 21, 2026 | Opinion
Malcolm X’s Autobiography was the first book that scared me. Here I was, in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, secretly abandoning my pietist-revivalist rearing in favor of the more verdant fields of liberalism, which helped for a time. Then came this...
by Angela Yarber | May 21, 2026 | Opinion
What if queer life, and queer spiritual life in particular, isn’t defined by survival, but by a radiant, hard-won joy that refuses to be erased and insists on being shared? Today’s Belief Behind the Book celebrates Queer Joy: A Mosaic of Self-Love, Community, and...
by Sean Palmer | May 20, 2026 | Opinion
A small speckled creature in The Sheep Detectives shows up early and stays with you longer than the murder mystery does. The film calls him the Winter Lamb. He was born outside the cozy season of spring when most sheep are born, and for that small offense of timing,...
by Mary Alice Birdwhistell | May 20, 2026 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following was first published on Mary Alice Birdwhistell’s Substack. “Rededicate 250” was held last Sunday in Washington, D.C. Growing up in a church with weekly altar calls, I was regularly given the opportunity to “rededicate” my life to...
by Tyler Tankersley | May 19, 2026 | Opinion
When news broke that Stephen Colbert’s late-night show would come to an end, many people responded with something more than disappointment. For many viewers, it felt like the closing of a familiar public space where satire and moral clarity still shared the...
