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...
Actor Christian Bale’s $22 million Together California foster care village is a great step for foster families in California. Bale’s village provides free housing and counseling, and caregivers get a daily stipend to pay for groceries and children’s expenses. All…
Hypocrisy was a practice for which Jesus had a low tolerance. In Matthew’s Gospel alone, he used the word “hypocrite” 13 times, and in Luke’s account, twice. In the original Greek, it simply referred to theater actors who wore masks…
Caring for creation isn’t political. In fact, it’s our chance to build relationships and a sense of life that, critically, go deeper than politics. The question is not whether we will hold convictions about public issues, or whether those convictions…
During the 2009-2010 school year, I found myself back at the Paseo Academy of the Fine and Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo. — this time as an instructional coach. This means I was the one on the school’s leadership…
This year, Diwali falls on Sunday, Nov. 8. Three weeks later, on Nov. 29, many churches will light the first candle of Advent. Both seasons set a small flame against the long nights of late autumn, each by its own…
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…
