If any Chalice Press book can be described as a labor of love, Jennifer Bailey’s To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope fits the bill, at every beautiful turn.
Books often evolve as they’re being written, in minor and major ways. To My Beloveds evolved in tragic and beautiful ways as Bailey’s life did what lives do, winding through sadness and loss and grief and anger and love and joy and hope.
“If we say that we are a pro-reconciliation, anti-racism church, we must choose every day to be who we say we are. That means not only standing up, but speaking up and acting in solidarity without fear.” —Terri Hord Owens,...
How much has changed in the last five years? We all know the last 18 months have been a crash course in forced change as we’ve locked down through the pandemic. It’s easy to list many changes we’ve experienced, and there are other changes we won’t know about for a long, long time.
One story, though, changed many of us and mobilized courage we didn’t know we had.
By Rev. Sara Nave Fisher Excerpted from When Kids Ask Hard Questions, Volume 2: More Faith-Filled Responses for Tough Topics (Coming soon from Chalice Press) I have a vivid memory of sitting on the carpeted floor of my sister’s basement...
We’ve learned a lot about ourselves over the last 18 months, including that we need to learn how to talk with each other about the ends of lives. Our own lives, the lives of our family and friends, of people...
At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the world witnessed Simone Biles, one of the greatest athletes of all time, defend not the gold medal but her own mental health. Simone is breaking the silence about mental illness and mental health, and she’s doing it while in the global spotlight. This deserves a gold medal.
Last November I had the pleasure of emailing Clark Williamson to let him know his Chalice Press book Way of Blessing, Way of Life: A Christian Theology had been optioned for a Korean translation. Such translations are relatively rare for Chalice,...
Military chaplains like Father Mulcahy are a walking paradox: a voice for compassion, kindness, and humanity while wearing the uniform of those who are, in the worst of times, directed to inflict damage, show as little mercy as possible, and ordered to forget their own humanity. For those of us who have never served in the military, the closest we can come to understanding a military chaplain’s life is to hear the stories of those who come closest to God walking among us.
“On behalf of a grateful nation…”
These words form the preamble that accompanies the handing of an American flag into the waiting, often trembling, arms of a grieving loved one. It was a powerful symbol. It sought to convey a shared sense of sacrifice on behalf of the military, the service member and the family. This relationship was inextricably forged within the covenant of duty to country. Both the flag folding and the utterance of these words were done with exact precision. Each practiced and perfected movement was a far cry from the often violent way in which war created the occasions for these memorials.
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