"Everyone knows this is where history is headed." That sentence has a soothing tone... It’s the drowsy lullaby that nothing we do matters except keeping our heads down and our hands clean. But empires love that sentence. So do strongmen, party bosses, and anyone who...
Faith was never meant to be an evacuation plan. It’s meant to be a transformation plan. It’s not about dodging earth’s problems, but about showing up with love and actually doing something about them.
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...
For me, faith is not just a noun, but also a verb.
Some male leaders of the Christian faith have continued the unwarranted practice of sexual discrimination... It is inevitable that this sustained religious subjugation has been a major influence in depriving women of basic rights within the worldwide secular community.
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority...
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'...
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...
As an American patriot, I celebrate the Fourth of July with pride and gratitude. However, I distinguish this patriotism from Christian nationalism. My faith teaches me that Jesus transcends political affiliations and national boundaries. He is not the exclusive...
Faith is precious, but it’s just the opening act for the real start of the show, which is love.