When Anne Marie Becraft established her school in the midst of the nation’s and the church’s slaveholding elite, she powerfully declared that the lives of black people, especially women and girls, mattered.

Each of us imagines we have “My Person.” I long thought mine was comedian John Mulaney.

Jesus Christ, you traveled through towns and villages “curing every disease and illness.” Come to our aid now, that we may experience your healing love.

Most writers walk a fine line between stealing from life and exploiting life.

“The function of prayer is not to influence God,” Kierkegaard said, “but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

Lent is not the time for hating my body or ignoring it or making it suffer for things that I have done, no matter what the voice of my eating disorder says.