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Here’s why the new Texas school curriculum is so very, very bad

Last week I spent a day in Austin, Texas, to testify for the second time against the new (and newly named) “Bluebonnet Learning K-5 Reading Language Arts” curriculum. Despite significant opposition, the Bible-infused curriculum was approved, which should be unsurprising...

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Looking for America

Christopher Isherwood returned to Berlin in 1952, 19 years after he had left — fled actually — in 1933. In The Berlin Stories he recounts that return in photographic detail. The book was published in 1939 and is the basis…

Don’t shrink back

The late Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield writes in Toward a Theology of Holy Black Rage, published in 2022: The nomination of Sen. Kamala Harris has again brought this issue of rage to center stage, especially with the church. It…

Keep walking

Head in hands, the disciples stared at their feet. These feet had walked faithfully ever since the first call to “Follow me.” Certain this way of life would usher in a new day and change the world, they had gone…

Living life ‘in the meantime’

I recently had breakfast with a colleague who finds himself wondering if he has one more move left in him. At the same time, he wonders whether he is now at an age when churches will simply pass over him…