Why Stay Christian: A Pride Month Pondering
For various reasons, it may come as a shock to you that a church would choose to spend a whole six-week series exploring the question Why Stay Christi...
Why Christianity is on the Decline in America
Christianity has a problem.
In America, the number of people who claim to be Christian has been rapidly declining over at least the past decade or ...
INHERIT YOUR CALLING TO JUSTICE
I held my fortieth birthday party at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Yes, the same Stonewall Inn where in 1969 a three-day riot—led by transgender...
Opening the Door to Women’s Ordination
Editor's Note: Published on April 29, 2023 on WomensOrdination.org blog, The Table.
Sitting behind the cantor podium in a candlelit chapel ado...
Palm Sunday Reflection
Here’s a little reflection on the subversive anti-imperial meaning of Palm Sunday.
(originally posted to Facebook on March 28, 2021).
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Kairos Center Prophetic Voices In The Public Square featuring Shane Claiborne
Prophetic Voices in the Public Square, a collaboration between Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice and University of Pennsylvania'...
Love Small
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the ...
Deconstruction, Fear, and the Sermon on the Mount
When I was thirteen, I had a green faux leather Living Bible with illustrations of a very 70s Jesus. For whatever reason, I flipped to the beginning o...
Why students at a Kentucky Christian school are praying and singing round the clock
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in Religion News Service.
Students have packed the chapel and overflow spaces at Asbury Universit...
Bless Their Hearts: A Southerner’s Response to Christian Nationalism and other “Ordinary Radicals”
I have lived in the south, specifically Georgia, for my whole life. My family is from the mountains of Appalachia, the stickiness of Macon, the gian...