Published in Foreshadow Magazine on July 7, 2025: https://www.foreshadowmagazine.com/magazine/a-creed-in-santa-cruz. Illumination A year after my mother’s death, we went to visit my brothers in Santa Cruz during the week after Christmas. Ohio was cold and snowy, and California was vibrant with life. Little pools of water along the shore line were rich with creatures and color. We … Continue reading A CREED IN SANTA CRUZ
Author: KPB Stevens
Sometimes A Radiant World
Published in Foreshadow Magazine, July 8, 2025: https://www.foreshadowmagazine.com/magazine/sometimes-a-radiant-world Illumination If we are Christ’s body, we must accept all of the aches and pains, the sleepiness, the sloth, the injury, the activity that is part of any form of embodiment. Just as we do not yet live within our resurrected bodies, the embodied community is not free … Continue reading Sometimes A Radiant World
To You Be Your Way, and To Me Mine
A few weeks ago, I received a Chick tract in the mail. It was delivered to my home in a handwritten envelope with no return address. The little booklet inside contained a smug, homophobic comic in which Jesus was portrayed as offering love through the medium of hate. One of my colleagues at St. Stephen’s … Continue reading To You Be Your Way, and To Me Mine
A Visit to Berkeley Divinity School
Published on Substack October 30, 2023 The plane descended and I looked out over low mountains, the tree canopy bright with autumn and the rivers and lakes disclosing themselves to my vantage point in a way that seemed almost intimate, as their shapes can’t be fully perceived from a shore or bank. I was traveling … Continue reading A Visit to Berkeley Divinity School
Revolutionary Patience
Published on Substack on October 23, 2023 The terror and anger of the last two weeks might make us want to turtle up and hide away. Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack on Israel and the indifference to civilian death in Israel’s military response creates such overwhelming moral confusion in me that it’s hard to look at … Continue reading Revolutionary Patience
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