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With the K-12 school year underway, a handful of states are entering the first full year of programs that provide public funding for students to attend private schools. Perhaps the most sweeping and high-profile program is in Texas, where Republican Governor Greg Abbott finally made good on his decade-long promise to implement a school voucher program.

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I was sitting at my desk with paint tubes, brushes, rags and books scattered around me. I was working on a painting inspired by a poem I had written after Wendell Berry died, when John Prine came across my playlist singing “Jesus: The Missing Years.”

I worked blue-gray paint into the sky and green and yellow into the field. I placed a fence post in the foregroun...

When your dad is an American history teacher, your class meets around the clock. My dad both lived through and taught American history. 

He was a child of the civil rights era and educated my brother and me around coffee tables and turntables as he taught the history of African Americans through texts and music. So there are not many civil rights names and events I don...

“Power/ Power, Lord, Power/ Power, Lord/ Holy Ghost, power/ Power, Lord, Holy Ghost, power/ Power, Lord.” This was the call-and-response agreement I grew up with, that the only power a believer should want was that offered by the Holy Ghost.

And you had to ask for it, wait or tarry for it. It was not a given and it was the power of the Holy Ghost solely. It was a...

We are now in the Season of Creation. This ecumenical liturgical season, from September 1 through the Feast Day of St. Francis on October 4, invites Christians around the world to reflect on God as Creator and ponder our place within the web of creation amid the climate crisis. It is a season to pray, reflect and advocate for God’s creation.

The Season of Creation asks...