Will Texas’ 500th Execution, Kimberly McCarthy, help victims?
JUNE 26, 2013 | BY: MARTY TROYER -- Today we Texans will kill our 500th person who was created in the image of God. 500 families...
Goodbye Santa! Hello St. Nick! Or, how many slaves work for you?
BY: MARTY TROYER -- There are more slaves in the world today than at any other time in human history. On December...
Eat the Turkey, not each other: How to survive Thanksgiving dinner
BY: MARTY TROYER -- There’s more to look forward to this Thanksgiving dinner than a second slice of pecan pie when...
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of The Evangelical Left
The right story told at the right time can make all the difference. Knowing this, great storytellers take as much care in selecting the right story as they do in crafting its telling. David Swartz, author an...
A "Red Letter" interpretation of Pentecost
An idea, vision, or question forms in your mind. You feel compelled to do something or say something you might not naturally do. Like run for President, buy a BMW, fight for abolition of Human Trafficking...
10 Skills Required for Intercultural Transformation
Last week I wrote about Undoing Houston’s Racism, including my own silence when violence was jokingly threatened against people of color. There I said that, “Racism, antipathy and alienation between diffe...
Indicting Violence: A Pacifist Review of "The Hunger Games"
75 years after the end of the world, reluctant teenage heroine Katniss Everdeen brings it to an end yet again.
Welcome to The Hunger Games, a trilogy dripping with the weight of oppression and the dread of ...