By David Gushee Follow David: @dpgushee My column this week is anchored by the wise insights of Professor Alan Brownstein, a constitutional law and church-state expert from the University of California at Davis. Professor Brownstein spoke at Mercer University the…
Prayers for Holy Week
By David Gushee Follow David: @dpgushee For Holy Week I simply offer these prayers from the collection my wife, Jeanie, and I edited in 2012: Yours is the Day, Lord, Yours is the Night (Thomas Nelson). May they speak to…
ISIS: Responding to its spiraling evil
By David Gushee Follow David: @dpgushee The brutality theatre that the terrorist group known as Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) is applying to the powerless victims in its grasp has been truly breathtaking to behold. Some fine reporting, notably by Graeme…
Killing Kelly: An open letter to Georgia’s Christian citizens
By David Gushee Follow David: @dpgushee Dear Georgia’s Christian Citizens: Unless something dramatic changes, tonight, March 2, your employees in the Georgia prison system, enforcing your laws, paid by your tax dollars, will take a Christian woman named Kelly Gissendaner…
Making sense of climate change
By David P. Gushee with David E. Gushee Follow David P. Gushee: @dpgushee David P. Gushee: In this column about climate change I am going to give the majority of the space to my esteemed father, David E. Gushee, who…
The painful inevitability of moral conflict
By David Gushee Follow David: @dpgushee Many factors lead me to reflect these days on the painful inevitability of moral conflict — and what, if anything, we can do about it, especially in Christian life. By “moral conflict” I mean sharp…
Reflecting on the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr.
By David Gushee Follow David:@dpgushee American life offers us very few heroes today. Certainly there are few people that everyone admires. Instead, our semi-heroes come in shades of red and blue, like the rest of our public life. Martin…
What I have said about torture since 2006
By David Gushee Follow David: @dpgushee In Fall 2005, while I was teaching at Union University, and two years before I moved here to Mercer University, the editors of Christianity Today magazine asked me to write an analysis of the…
For unto us a child is born
By David Gushee Follow David:@dpgushee I have had the extremely rare privilege in the last two weeks of holding a tiny human being named Jonah. He entered the world on Dec. 10, weighing not even eight pounds and stretching not…