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Historical fiction and biblical imagination
A prolific writer whose work spans a variety of genres, Kaethe Schwehn has followed her ideas through in works of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. Her newest novel, The Gospel…
Theology & Beliefs
Can we pick and choose when it comes to belief?
You may have heard the derisive label “Cafeteria Christian,” meaning those who choose which Christian teachings to follow or ignore as if they were in a cafeteria line. For two…
Voices of Faith
Choosing awe over fear in The King of Kings
“I don’t want to hear about Jesus,” declares a precocious little boy, wielding a toy sword and dashing around his tired father’s office. “I want to hear about King Arthur!”…
Voices of Faith
A dream of justice in Captain America: Brave New World
The latest entry in the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Brave New World has its share of thrills. There’s a city street standoff with a hired killer called Sidewinder…
Spiritual Resources
Loving the loser and warning the winner
“Come on!” shouts a triumphant Tashi at several key points in Challengers. Although the tennis drama was sold as a steamy love triangle between Tashi (Zendaya) and former best friends…
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Highly recommended
Huck and Loona This charming story by Emily Kilgore, with illustrations by Florence Weiser, is set in the great Northwoods, where woodland friends Huck the bear and Loona the loon…
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The divine image inside Sing Sing
In the new movie Sing Sing, John “Divine G” Whitfield (Colman Domingo) has nothing but time. Sentenced to the infamous Sing Sing Correctional Facility for a crime he didn’t commit,…
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Recovering a lost Caribbean Lutheran history
For José David Rodríguez, what began as a doctoral dissertation is now the first academic history of the Lutheran church by a Puerto Rican. Rodríguez’s new book, Caribbean Lutherans: The…
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An extraordinary Lutheran love story
David Schaeffer’s book Letters from Sweden (Mercer University Press, 2023) isn’t an ordinary love story. For one thing, it’s told mainly in letters, most of them written by the author’s…
Voices of Faith
Inside Out 2 and the peace that passes understanding
When we last left the personified feelings of Inside Out, they seemed to have everything together. In the 2015 Disney-Pixar animated film, Joy and Sadness (voiced by Amy Poehler and…
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Highly recommended
For children and families What If I Can’t Explain God? “God is hard to explain. I’ve tried asking grown-ups to explain God, but they aren’t very good at it.” These…
Voices of Faith
On Martin Luther and horror movies
I was 4 years old when I saw my first horror movie. My parents loved to go to the movies, and this was the 1980s, when Freddie Kreuger, Michael Myers…
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