“Holy Relics” Articles

The people of Calcata continued to parade through the streets with the prepuce every January 1 almost until Return of the Jedi hit theaters.

The choir robe is a symbol of conformity, representative of an individual voice joining a crowd of voices, subsumed.

Why go out into the wilderness if not to meet God-The-Consuming-Fire, hands outstretched to toast marshmallows over His light and warmth?

The welcome card is not just a way to welcome newcomers. It becomes a possible means of grace.

When will she grow, when will it be her time to go, when will all of those other verses she memorizes on Wednesday nights to get fake plastic jewels in her fake plastic AWANA crowns apply to her?

Centuries of waiting and longing in the time before and after the life of Christ give the season its shape.

Lined with residual food stains, the ringed basin of a crockpot might contain clues about its age.

But to look at a newborn is also to catch sight of the eternal nascence of the kingdom of God.

As the organ suits a stone church with stained glass windows, the guitar suits aluminum sheet siding, coffee in Styrofoam cups, and PowerPoint slide decks.

God’s happiness for people is seriously complicated, what with the bone-deep sorrow and the crying and everything.

The Church’s songs convey its beliefs about God, but they also convey its beliefs about God’s world.

Does obstructing a premature thought of sex require us to forego an unsullied idea of hugs?

Reliving the adventures of a ten-hour-long ride in the ol’ church van.

What’s outside this ongoing act of community can be downright horrifying, although that isn’t to say that what’s within the community can’t be.

John is injected with a drug that renders him unconscious.

A small group of twentysomethings seems to be high.

We see the hole in his flesh, the blood-streaked face

and more blood pooling on the ground.

Charles smokes a cigar.