Last week, Christian nationalists won another skirmish in their ongoing assault on democracy and their misguided struggle for the “soul” of America when the governor of Louisiana signed legislation mandating posting the Ten Commandments on the walls of every classroom…
Putting Jesus and Paul ahead of personal freedom
Yesterday on my way home, I went to the supermarket to pick up a few things. Arriving at the door at the same time as a young mother and child coming from a different part of the parking lot, I…
Here’s one word to make peace in this political season
Politics is a year-round sport, but the season is intensifying with the coming of the 2020 presidential election. With it, relationships between family members, friends and strangers will become more contentious, strained and precarious. It doesn’t take a prophet or the…
In a messy election year, let’s remember that the ‘Golden Rule’ applies to politics too
The 2020 election might be the church’s best witnessing opportunity. Or our worst.
If a favorite preacher, pundit or politician speaks in stereotypes, it’s time you changed the channel
The tool of a lazy mind, the product of shallow thinking and the evidence of unsettled and angry spirits, the stereotypes that are ubiquitous in the religious and political discourse of our age are also evidence of a nation misguided, the immaturity of the body politic.
Church and creation care: we need a theology-before-politics approach
What has happened to us, that conversations about our cosmic home have become so divisive? What would happen if we were all curious enough to learn from science, scripture and one another?
In America’s culture divide, the Golden Rule is no longer enough
It seems America’s cultural divide has reached such a bitter impasse that the Golden Rule no longer applies. We’ve short-circuited it by jumping to the conclusion that “others” are not like us enough for this sage wisdom to apply.