It’s astonishing to consider that only a few weeks ago we celebrated the birth of the Prince of Peace. There are absolutely no words to express the contradiction between the meaning of Christmas and the practice of warmongering.
My take on the infamous Christianity Today editorial on Trump: Blessed are the (real) journalists
Journalism shares a lot of the same values as Christianity. They both privilege truth.
Last call for aging white evangelicals: The political marriage to Trump will collapse. What then?
Some species of evangelical religion will ultimately rise from the rubble of American conservatism, but it will be greatly curtailed, politically irrelevant and, I pray, more recognizably Christian.
2019 was not a good year for the church: 10 resolutions for doing better in 2020
It’s high time for the church to drop all its stones and stop acting like its role is to be judge, jury, and executioner for those who believe and live in different ways.
Year in Review for thoughtful Christians: Part 2 (July – December)
If you consider yourself a thoughtful Christian, then this is the Year in Review for you.
Year in Review for thoughtful Christians: Part 1 (January – June)
If you consider yourself a thoughtful Christian, then this is the Year in Review for you.
The Christianity Today editorial: exposing the American evangelical dilemma
Like it or not, the evangelical dilemma has implications for the way much of Christianity is viewed throughout American culture. The magazine’s now infamous editorial simply punctuated that reality.
Christmas in times like these: finding hope in the faith of a pre-Christmas people
Perhaps the only way to really experience Christmas as it was intended is to renew the faith of a pre-Christmas people who did not yet know the Savior whose justice and righteousness we seem to stubbornly resist at every turn
The year in review for thoughtful Christians (you might have missed something)
If you consider yourself a thoughtful Christian, then this is the Year in Review for you.
Telling the truth or creating our own realities? (And the wisdom to know the difference)
Today, in the land of the free and the home of the tribal, “discernable truth” seems tenuous at best. Americans are locked collectively in a truth-crisis so perilous that distinguishing “fictional” from “actual realities” has become a 24/7 confrontation across every segment of our national life, churches included.
Déjà vu: Jewish settlements in Palestine, U.S. policy and support from conservative Christians
Israeli settlers are part of a decades-long, U.S. financed and militarily supported invasion of the occupied West Bank by the Israeli government – an invasion sacralized by conservative evangelical Christians.
Rather than ‘surviving’ family conversations this Thanksgiving, here are 4 ways you can thrive
Are our family dynamics and table conversations really going to be so awful that many of us just want to “survive” Thanksgiving this year?