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On ‘My Ántonia’: Bodily Life as Fallen and Redeemed Creatures
My Ántonia invites the reader to look closely at one life, so closely that it becomes a window for looking at one’s own life, and every human life.
Joel Kurz
September 19, 2025
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Love keeps no record of rights
LW Contributor
We do a nice thing and immediately tuck it away in our mental archives for later. “Wow,” we say to ourselves, “would you look at ...
Where moth and rust decay
LW Contributor
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for ...
When faith matters most
LW Contributor
When the unimaginable happens, faith in Jesus is the only thing that will help us through.
Embracing the church generation gap
LW Contributor
Instead of just bridging the church generation gap, what if we embraced it? From both sides?
There’s no theology like snow theology
LW Contributor
Snow falls, and the ugliness of an unsightly landscape disappears. Dirt, decay, dilapidation — all are erased by two or three inches of newly fallen ...
The people that in darkness sat
LW Contributor
As we “sit in darkness” together during these dark, cold days of winter, the words of a favorite Epiphany hymn bring us comfort and hope. ...








