Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...
I get nervous about declarations that our current times are the “most” anything in human history. So I hesitate to say our current situation is the “most” critical time to engage contemporary issues in the church.
No wonder churches are struggling to understand Pokémon Go, the smartphone-based augmented reality game whose lexicon includes terms like combat power, gyms, incubators, lucky eggs, Lure Models and PokeStops. Pokémon Go is bewildering to the non-player.
Vision impairment that’s easy to fix in rich countries can be life sentences in most of the world. These volunteer doctors aim to change that.
America does not have a problem with racial tension. Racial tension is simply the fever indicating the disease. America has a problem with racism.
In her July 10 message at the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber retells the story of the Merciful Samaritan. The message is timely, coming as it does on the heels of a week —…
There comes a time when enough is enough. When there seems like nothing else you can do, just stand, and stand we did — as a family.
Brent Walker can see the U.S. Capitol and the U.S. Supreme Court building when he arrives at work. And that’s appropriate since he often finds himself heading over to those two buildings, as well as the White House and other…
A vortex of new stories on Wednesday concerning the upcoming GOP convention, platform, and Trump coronation, placed together with forthcoming works about the rapid racial and demographic remapping of American Christianity (and American unbelief, for that matter), suggests that, if…
Of Americans living near coal plants, 39 percent are people of color, and black children are four times as likely as their white counterparts to die from asthma.
The thermometer offered a 103-degree “Welcome Home” recently to Mississippi native Jason Coker, returning to his roots after 14 years of church leadership in Wilton, Conn. A Baptist from the South with a drawl, Coker arrived in the affluent Connecticut…
Unlike most Americans, evangelical Christians do not believe that law enforcement treats minorities unfairly, new research by The Barna Group has found. “Overall, only 29 percent of evangelicals believe police unfairly target people of color,” the Christian research organization said…
In so many ways, we are still experiencing the beginning birth pains of an integrated America. In some ways, we’ve made significant and hopefully irreversible progress. In other ways, it might as well be the first day of integration or the mad years of Jim Crow.
