Tag: Brazos Press

Just for a Season

Just for a Season, Grandmom and Grandad’s Louisiana table will always be my favorite table, carved walnut and long enough for their four kids to bring their kids who also brought theirs. It was the living table of a great-grandmother, and she set it with southern precision, in decadent layers of greenery and understated class.

Amber Haines and Seth Haines

Hope is a thing that is here and now, and it requires participation. Like love, hope has a way of acting.

Does Your View of Heaven Match Jesus’?

"The heavens" also carried another important meaning in the ancient world, and the View of Heaven shapes how we understand the dwelling place of God in Scripture.

Skye Jethani

When we come to embrace Jesus’ map of heaven, we will discover that it works so much better than the one we’ve inherited from popular Christian culture.

The Bible and the Civil Rights Movement

Many scholars describe the civil rights movement as a political movement with religious dressinguseful for the movements purposes but not central to the message. But the work of historian David L. Chappell, based on testimonies by civil rights activists and leaders, contradicts this. Their accounts indicate that it was, for them, primarily a religious event, showing the profound influence of the Bible on the civil rights movement.

This Isn’t How They Told Us It Would Be: Doubting Christianity

If you are no longer sure if you can believe in God, or if youre beginning to doubt Christianity, we dont assume youve lost your mind.

Joshua D. Chatraw and Jack Carson

In what follows you will find ways of thinking differently, practices to engage in, and better questions to attend to.

Follow Your Breath: Thomas Merton’s Guide to Prayer

Toms message was simple: each and every one of us is invited to encounter a God who loves, chooses, and visits us through practices like Thomas Merton breathing prayer.