I didn't grow up with icons, being a small-town Oklahoma Methodist preacher's kid. I must have run across my first icon when I was living in Nashville as a young adult. In those days I was involved in justice work through Edgehill United Methodist Church and Nashville's Peace with Justice Center. We were protesting against nuclear weapons and the oppression of the poor in El Salvador. The first icons I remember seeing were contemporary images by Robert Lentz, a Franciscan bro

On days when the world feels out of control when leaders live out their shadow selves for all to see when hatred, fear, and bigotry march...

A new recording of "All Shall Be Well" by Beth A. Richardson

When you wake up in a fog, The clouds hiding the sun, Hiding the hope and the confidence You used to have. When the place you are...

"These words, 'You shall not be overcome', were said very loudly and clearly. ... God did not say, 'You shall not be tormented, you shall...