As an alumna and former employee of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, my grief is deep today.
Climate nihilism is right to recognize the dire situation we’re in, but wrong to lose hope
When informed Christians ponder devastation from climate change that could affect millions – if not billions – of people for generations to come, it’s easy to lose hope for the future. But our actions still matter. We must not give up.
The time is now to discard labels and stop taking sides
The season is here to create welcoming, loving and affirming faith communities and structures that make honest and just space for individuals from different social, political, economic and theological locations.
Why Big Bird and Oscar cannot retire
What could be more therapeutic than being both Big Bird and Oscar? A tender, nurturing, childlike avian is great, but there is a part of us that is a crabby, trash-talking, green monster.
Why being transgender is not a sin
Transgender identity is about who a person is. It’s not about who they love or what actions they take that might be sinful in the sense that we all sin. It is about their fundamental being as humans created by God in God’s image – an image that God has declared to be good.
Now, what shall we talk about at Thanksgiving dinner?
Post midterms, polarization prevails. Yet there is much legislative work to do for the common good. How might that happen?
Finances and staff: a difficult but necessary conversation for churches
Whatever we believe the Kingdom is to look like in the coming season of our congregation’s life is what reigns supreme when it comes to priorities for facilities, staff, structures and finances.
Amid all the fear-mongering about a refugee ‘caravan,’ Christians need to mount a crusade
Is Christian America really going to sit silent as our government sends thousands of soldiers to the southern border to deny asylum to refugees?
Have all our short-term mission trips to Latin America shaped our response to the migrant ‘caravan’?
Over the past dozen years, nearly 13 million American Christians have participated in short-term mission trips to Latin American countries. Where are those 13 million Jesus-followers now when their voices and actions are most needed?
Words matter. What if the source of our words matters as much as the words themselves?
Faced with the overwhelming abundance and appalling emptiness of human speech these days, something inside me wants to follow Job’s lead and “lay my hand over my mouth.”
On Election Day, I’ll be watching for signs of repentance from white evangelicals
On Tuesday night, I’ll watch election returns to see whether white people who call themselves evangelical followers of Jesus will, again, prove that they prize white supremacy above the inclusive and liberating gospel of divine grace, truth, justice and peace.
Is the rise in anti-Semitism one of the Church’s unpaid bills?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer told his seminary students, “Only he who cries out for the Jews may sing Gregorian chants.” As Christian worshipers stand to sing on Sunday, we would do well to remember Bonhoeffer’s confession.