There should be a name for this grief, the grief of watching the faith that raised you trade away its own soul. The grief of watching the church that taught you to love your neighbor, to care for the vulnerable, to seek justice and walk humbly with God, lay it all on...
The Christian who is misinformed; who is subject to the demagoguery of extremists in the press or radio, or on TV, and who is perhaps to some extent temperamentally inclined to associate himself with fanatical groups in politics, can do an enormous amount of harm to...
Reminder: women were ordained as pastors, priest, and bishops in the first three centuries of the early church. To claim ordaining women is "slipping into liberalism," is to miss how the church stopped ordaining women because it slipped into patriarchy.
And what I'm willing to do, which the mainstream church is not, is to denounce the Christian right as Christian heretics. You don't have to, as I did, spend three years at Harvard Divinity School to realize that Jesus didn't come to make us rich. And he certainly...
Churches who teach the only gospel is salvation while ignoring or denying the Gospel that Jesus claimed as His mission--to usher in the Kingdom of God on earth--are teaching an incomplete gospel and not the complete Gospel of Jesus, the Christ.
Church musicians are in the business of the beautiful to counteract the ugly, the untruth.
It is not the task of the church to "Make America Great Again." The contemporary task of the church is to make Christianity countercultural again. And once we untether Jesus from the interests of empire, we begin to see just how countercultural and radical Jesus'...
The Church is not to be found at the "center" of a left/right political world. The Church is to be a species of its own kind, confounding left, right, and center, and finding its identity from the "center" of God's life in Christ.
Do you know what? If we could get our churches to see that we are to love without discrimination and that we are to give the Holy Spirit liberty to love everybody in sight through us, then we would have revival on our hands! The world would turn aside to see the...
Dark and terrible as is this picture, I hold it to be strictly true of the overwhelming mass of professed Christians in America. They strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Could anything be more true of our churches? They would be shocked at the proposition of...