We have to understand that justice depends on people telling the truth. Lies are matches that destroy forests that have been growing for decades. Lies turn harmony into hatred. Lies makes us forget how good honesty is.
Flaming heretics and anathemas galore
The Baptist orthodoxy wars taught me this: When ideologues decide you are a heretic, they’ll raise the doctrinal ante until they prove it — if not to you, at least to themselves.
Prepare your jump
For me, anxious dreams represent a call to change. But change is hard. Change is difficult because it involves hard work — a multistep process that must be surrounded by prayer and discernment.
Prepare su salto
Para mí, los sueños de ansiedad representan un llamado al cambio. Pero el cambio es difícil. El cambio es difícil porque implica un trabajo arduo: un proceso de varios pasos que debe de estar rodeado de oración y discernimiento.
God’s invitation to life
God’s invitation is nothing less than a beckoning to receive what God alone can provide: grace. Grace receives us as we are and renews the human spirit. Grace reminds us of who we are created to be and supplies the enervating work of the Spirit that we might fully live.
Societal norms no longer bow to church. So what?
Gone are the days when we can just follow the masses to church without ever actually following God’s Son, Jesus Christ. But isn’t that good?
Humility, kindness and welcome: Hard but biblical callings
Consistently in this country and throughout Christian history, we remember the legacy of the stranger, the heroic actions of the unwanted, the new insights and contributions of the disregarded and even despised.
Climate change is a gospel issue. It’s time Christians acknowledged it
There are many definitions of injustice, but “suffering the consequences of someone else’s actions” is a good one. Unfortunately, climate change is the epitome of this injustice. The countries most responsible for climate change will not be the countries who…
God’s freedom and ours: 10 points for thinking about Calvinism
The Christian consensus from the time of the Second Council of Orange in 529 A.D. has been that human willing and divine sustaining are not at odds, but are compatible with one another.
Why it matters that we must make disciples, not converts
For those of us who grew up in Southern Baptist or other evangelical circles, “revival” is a well-known phenomenon, especially for those older than I am. Some remember “big tent revivals.” Others remember special guest weekend preachers at their churches,…
Dolores and David: A portrait in kindness
Most days, I think that we can build on Dolores and David. Which is not to say that we can just be nice to each other and everything will be OK. But it is possible to craft policy in a way that makes the journey a bit easier for those who suffer.
No, I am not an angry Latino
Occupying a Latino male body in the academy is a continuous challenge where not a day goes by in which I am not reminded that I am an outsider, that this space I occupy within the ivory tower is a space never intended for me.