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Renewing our baptism in a time of cruelty

This week, Common Dreams reported on the federal budget outline approved with a party-line vote in the House of Representatives, noting: Republican hardliners are also reportedly pursuing changes that could force states to end their Medicaid expansions, which would strip coverage from…

Georgia school expels senior who brought transgender date to prom

An Atlanta-area Christian school expelled a high school senior 12 days before graduation because she brought a transgender date to prom. Fox5 Atlanta broke the story May 19 in an interview with the student, Emily Wright, and her mother, Tricia…

I was sworn to silence after female genital mutilation

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer I was sworn to silence after being a victim of…

As Biden faces cancer diagnosis, Trump family and MAGA hurl insults

It didn’t take MAGA world long to hurl insults and conspiracy theories after learning former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. While progressive and conservative politicians and pundits alike were quick to offer…

Religious liberty groups oppose federal school voucher plan

Dozens of religious groups and hundreds of faith leaders are speaking out against a federal school voucher program currently under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives. If approved as part of a legislative funding package, the Educational Choice for…

Supreme Court runs on vibes and grievances, new book contends

Supreme Court justices claim their rulings are based on originalism, textualism or other lofty sounding legal theories. But a new book claims the court’s conservative majority decides cases with “a mishmash of law, vibes, fantasy, facts and ‘alternative facts.’” “At…

Are you offering a ‘kids’ table’ for single adults at your church?

My best friend here in Dallas got dressed up and went to a church dinner this weekend in someone’s home. He paid $300 for his seat at the 10-course meal as part of a church fundraiser. You need to know…

New book explores the good, the bad and the weepy about church camp

Years attending and later working at Christian summer camps left Cara Meredith feeling somewhat ambivalent about letting her own children experience what is essentially an evangelical rite of passage. So perplexing was the question that it helped inspire her new…

Jesus, the Holy Spirit and ‘more of the same’

For the past 30 years, I have made it a practice to read the four Gospels all the way through, every word, about three or four times a year; all of which must add up to somewhere around a hundred…

You can’t love Jesus and hate immigrants

In the years leading up to World War II and the Holocaust, large numbers of German Christians condemned people who differed from them politically, theologically, nationally or ethnically. In the midst of that dangerous context, one offbeat newspaper dared to…

The kingdom within: Reclaiming the sacred in an age of contradiction

“The kingdom of God is inside you, and all around you, not in mansions of wood and stone. Split a piece of wood, and I am there; lift a stone, and you will find me.” — Gospel of Thomas, Saying…

What can we learn from Jesus’ encounter with the Rich Young Ruler?

“And looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, ‘One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come follow me’”…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system