Amid all the smiles and laughter, if you’re grieving this Christmas, it’s OK. Your anguish has a role to play.
The year in review for thoughtful Christians (you might have missed something)
If you consider yourself a thoughtful Christian, then this is the Year in Review for you.
SBC’s new reporting process again fails clergy sex abuse survivors. What’s needed is an independent review panel
The SBC Credentials Committee has recklessly ignored the long history of churches inflicting dreadful, additional harm on those who report abusive clergy. Its new reporting process is not even a safe process, much less an effective one.
Do American Christians care about moral character in our political leaders?
Our lack of concern for character in our leaders is impacting our ability to meet the great moral crises of our time.
Nativity scenes, inflatable Santas and creeping secularism: What’s in your yard?
Advent and its expectant incarnational witness doesn’t belong to shopping malls, town councils, Congress or even the U.S. presidency. It abides with the church of Jesus Christ.
Lupe, my friend and neighbor, shouldn’t have died: politicians, preachers and poverty in America
This holiday season as you express gratitude for all you have been given, take a moment to get to know and provide for people in your communities who are living outside the prosperous neighborhoods you and I typically frequent.
Mary sings her joyful – and radical – faith. Do we have the courage to join her?
Let us rejoice with Mary that God keeps promises and will ultimately conquer all that tramples the weak and outcast. The Mighty One did great things for her – and will for us.
The Good News of Christmas calls the Church to embrace the ‘F’ word
As a Baptist pastor I can no longer avoid the “F” word; if anything, I must lean into it, embracing it for the sake of the Gospel.
Nikki Haley, Confederate memory and the insidious myth of racial ‘reconciliationism’
The most dangerous aspect of reconciliationism is that it assumes an immunity to modern iterations of racism. There is no such immunity. There is only a fight – a never-ending battle against the virus around us and within us.