Apache Stronghold is fighting to save Oak Flat. After Congress authorized the Oak Flat land transfer, in 2021 the nonprofit ...

Tim Nafziger is a writer, organizer, and digital engagement consultant based in California. From theological reflections to ...

At youth group and church camp, I learned to perform my own unworthiness. It took years to recognize the spiritual harm ...

Open heartsI read Peter Marty’s column about Eden Murphy, a teenager born with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with an ache in ...

God sends manna because God cares for the human needs, because God’s love matters for our lives. To talk about care is to get ...

But often it’s through unexpected juxtapositions that Monteiro evokes life’s mysteries. So, for instance, the poem “Solomon ...

On the Piazza della Signoria,under the gaze of Michelangelo’s David(a decent copy rather), among the crowds,a horse-drawn carriage or two, afternoon sunassaulting the air, an English bulldog madehis ...

JohnThe tree bore fruit for one summer only.A cluster of kumquats grew like a tumor in the heart;the branches couldn’t ...

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Emma Galloway Stephens is cofounder of Arbor Institute for the Arts in Greenville, South Carolina, where she serves as director ...

As Shaylynn Bird danced across the arena under the hot midwestern summer sun, the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara and Oglala Lakota woman began to feel off.Bird, who once won a 76-song iron woman competition ...