Luther cautions that people of faith “live the Word ... by serving in a curative and charitable function,” the author writes. Here, quilts donated by Lutheran World Relief are distributed to villagers in Niger through a local NGO supporting the disabled. Credit: Creative Commons/4Cheungs. More

Poems are within themselves entire words, made of words. Creative Commons More

Learning through nature and connection instead of through words in textbooks. Brisbane City Council More

“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.” Creative Commons More

Pawel Kuczynski ( pawelkuczynski.com ) Establishment liberals may speak of equality and justice, but without pressure from an active Left, their words often dissolve in a wash of hypocrisy. Illustration by Pawel Kuczynski. More

The most inspiring examples of workers taking over factories have been coming from Argentina. Sin Patrón , published in English by Haymarket Books, tells in the workers’ own words the stories of ten occupied and recovered workplaces. More

Creative Commons/dbking The prosperity gospel — popularized in part through mass meetings like T. D. Jakes’s annual Pastors and Leadership Conference (above) — spreads the idea that “God’s word and the market operate as one unit,” Spence writes. More

He Qi “The texts of the empty tomb tradition take injustice, suffering, and death seriously but do not see them as having the last word,” the author writes. In this painting, Empty-Tomb by He Qi, women gather around Jesus’s empty grave. More

Creative Commons/fibonacciblue Contraception remains a major subject of right-wing Christian concern, even though the Bible itself says nothing on the topic. Here, a participant in a March 2012 Occupy Women’s Rights rally in Minneapolis pushes back with some word play. More