I woke up this Election Day with an unusual urge. I wanted to go back and reread Jamar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism. I’m not entirely sure why that particular book...
While some white evangelical leaders have responded to results of this week’s midterm elections with dismay, others are responding with calls to action that echo the insurrection of January 6, 2021. By and large, these white evangelicals cannot believe the…
The Christian Crusaders are planning another insurrection on January 6. Despite — or perhaps because of — a Democratic margin of victory so significant on Tuesday that not even Donald Trump could claim foul, some white evangelicals are not willing…
The dust hasn’t settled quite yet on the 2026 midterm elections, but as the air clears it is obvious those concerned about the direction our country was going showed up to offer a powerful rebuke to Donald Trump, Christian nationalism…
I woke up this Election Day with an unusual urge. I wanted to go back and reread Jamar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism. I’m not entirely sure why that particular book…
American Jews voted solidly Democratic in the 2026 midterms, which they treated as a referendum on President Donald Trump and Republicans and as an opportunity to support democracy, according to post-election polling. An NBC News exit poll found 68% of…
Outgoing California Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted the death sentences of all 561 of the state’s Death Row inmates Nov. 5 and the Democrat’s long-expected move inspired death abolitionists nationwide. “We are grateful that Gov. Newsom, like other Republican and Democratic…
For generations, California has understood itself as a place willing to wrestle with hard questions, especially when human dignity is at stake. By commuting all of California’s death sentences to life imprisonment, Gov. Gavin Newsom has shown he is unafraid…
Dear Editor: As Mike Tyson is often quoted as saying, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” But for at least two people, soon-to-be Kansas Sen. Adam Hamilton and myself, the opposite — oddly and blessedly…
Dear Editor: In “The Iran Bombing Is A Religion Story for All But One Person,” Mark Wingfield wrote that we cannot think of Iran as a modern state unhinged from its religious moorings. I grew up inside that religion story,…
I woke up Wednesday morning thinking about my children. Among the final edits I made to the manuscript for my book Backslide was to the dedication page, which reads: “For my children, and to those born later.” I wrote those words…
“Dividing voters based on race is wrong and unconstitutional.” Those are the words of Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, according to a statement he issued concerning his effort to terminate a federal judicial redistricting agreement established more than 35 years…
To close observers of The United Methodist Church, the current legal wranglings over Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas might sound familiar. A similar story played out four years ago in Arkansas, in what was then the second-largest UMC…
