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Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...

Kentucky human-rights head commends Crescent Hill

By Bob Allen In a Nov. 29 letter to the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the chairman of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights commended a church recently kicked out of the Kentucky Baptist Convention over homosexuality. George Stinson, chairman of the…

Thanksgiving is not just a day

As millions of Americans travel and look forward to sitting down on this Thanksgiving Day, many will eat until their gut is full. Turkey, ham, and mashed potatoes will be consumed and football will be played or watched. As Americans…

Networking on Airplanes the Tony Campolo Way

Anyone who has experienced Tony Campolo in person probably has Tony Campolo stories. Not stories about him, but stories he tells that you retell. Yeah, me too. Since I claim over two million airline miles during my life–a small amount…

Pope Francis says it is wrong to equate Islam with violence

A Manhattan Declaration reunion in Rome

Why hundreds of congregations made final break with mainline denominations

Southern Baptists running away from immigration reform

More pastors embrace talk of mental ills

The hope button

By Scott Dickison There’s a little button on the wall in the birthing center at the big hospital in town, down the street from our church. I’m told that other hospitals in town and probably other places have a similar…

Decided. Or have we become what we thought we would be

At the end of every semester, like clockwork I suppose, it happens. Amidst the speeches, the tasseling (oh, the TASSELING!), the pomp and the circumstance. Amidst the youthful expectancy, the Quixotic hubris, and the endless marimba ring screeching disturbingly from…

A Spiritual Path to Gratitude

Brother David Steindl-Rast has contended in his writings that gratitude is foundational to a healthy spiritual life. If that is true, and I believe it is, then how might we expand our capacity for gratitude? Perhaps some reflections drawn from…

We’ve got a lot of race work to do in America

By Marv Knox No matter what we think about a grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, can we acknowledge attitudes about race divide our nation? The grand jury’s Wilson/Brown decision…

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