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The American church is comfortable and lazy

One reason there is such a dissonance between the church and the culture in the United States is because the church has gotten lazy. In the early days of my time in Abilene, Texas, at Crescent Heights Baptist Church, Hardin-Simmons…

We need more faith spaces that affirm the LGBTQ communities

Earlier this month, the conservative evangelical “King’s Army” spewed homophobia at Londoners and I was transported back to being a closeted queer teenager. Hearing those same sentiments at a young age was what made me realize my childhood church was not a…

Struggling for words these days

What’s a four-letter word that means feces? Dung. What’s a four-letter word for something many people love to do with a partner multiple times per month? Golf. Thus, if you need to instruct someone to hit a manure ball with…

In Lebanon, sexual abuse and economic abuse go hand in hand

“I don’t know if I’ve started ignoring everything because I got used to the ugliness, or because the smell of cannabis makes it easier not to care.” With these words, Ftoun, 15, a Syrian refugee working in cannabis fields in the plains…

Conservatives condemn report citing conservative political violence

A think tank report on political violence published a day after Charlie Kirk’s murder found right-wing violence has killed many more Americans than left-wing attacks over the past half century. Conservatives quickly condemned the report and called for its withdrawal….

Farewell to a Church Triumphant

The current run of failures in leadership and difficulties applying our disciplinary processes won’t be the death of the Anglican Church in North America. Far from it. I make that prediction as one of a small group of people who…

Most Americans don’t share the MAGA vision

Last week, PRRI released our flagship American Values Survey. In this unprecedented political moment, we find party polarization remains a pernicious and growing aspect of American politics. That Republicans and Democrats remain polarized in their views on a range of public…

The Million Man March 30 years later

October 16, 1995, will forever be etched in my heart — not just as a moment in history, but as a defining moment in my own life. I was a 19-year-old senior at Coatesville Area Senior High School, just outside…

MAGA is making America dizzy again

In 2015, a military training exercise called Jade Helm became the basis for a right-wing conspiracy theory which claimed that under President Barack Obama, the federal government planned to impose martial law. Conservatives went crackers over an unfounded prospect that…

Lisbon to Auschwitz to Alligator Alcatraz: Cruelty and the human face of evil

There are few things more characteristic of the Trump regime than cruelty, often gratuitous cruelty. It is the human face of evil in one of its most repellent forms. Susan Nieman, in her masterful work Evil In Modern Thought: An…

A portrait of the undocumented immigrants in the USA

The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States spiked to nearly 14 million just more than a year before President Donald Trump returned to office and launched his aggressive detention and deportation campaign. The population of unauthorized residents increased…

Top Hispanic evangelical leader still supports Trump

After saying he proudly voted for Donald Trump three times, the COO of the National Hispanic Evangelical Leadership Conference told a group of faith leaders Oct. 22 he was unaware Trump’s ICE agents had been physically attacking pastors in Chicago….

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone