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Summer Reads 2025
It’s the time of year when many publications suggest good books you can enjoy during the summer, perhaps reading while tanning on the beach, relaxing in…
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Pentaccost
Church services around the world yesterday (June 8) included a reading from Acts 2 to commemorate the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended on…
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Weekly Roundup: June 6
Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to a piece reflecting on one year since the publication of Baptizing America that is free…
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John Danforth, Former GOP Senator & Episcopal Priest, Calls Bishop Budde ‘Prophetic’
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When a Politician’s Party Trumps Their Church
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Lutherans Hammer Against Misinformation by Michael Flynn & Elon Musk
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Political Attacks on Walz’s Church? Good Grief.
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Brave Sermon Exposes Christian Nationalism
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Sermons About That Sermon
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The Gospel According to Joni Ernst
In the 1989 classic movie Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams played the part of a transformative English teacher at an elite Episcopalian all-male…
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One Year of Baptizing America
One year ago, we gathered online with historian Diana Butler Bass, sociologist Andrew Whitehead, and Rev.
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Weekly Roundup: May 30
Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to a review of a new memoir that is free for anyone to read, paid subscribers to A Public…
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Queen Mary vs. King David
In Copenhagen, Denmark, there’s a monument to a Black woman who led a labor uprising nearly 5,000 miles away.
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Review & Giveaway: Pilgrim
As my own spiritual journey evolved from the faith I inherited to the convictions I claimed as my own, Tony Campolo was a voice who exerted outsized…
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Weekly Roundup: May 23
Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to a book announcement that is free for anyone to read, paid subscribers to A Public…
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Resurrecting Jesus & Christian Nationalism (From the Basement)
The to-do list for the U.S.
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The Bible According to Christian Nationalists
Jack Hibbs, a politically active MAGAchurch pastor in California, recently said someone in Washington, D.C., told him that “there’s more Bible studies…
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Weekly Roundup: May 16
Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. In addition to an analysis of presidential references to Jesus that is free for anyone to read, paid…
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