Heeding the Sacred Call to Give Sanctuary to the Vulnerable
As we transition from Easter and Passover, may we reflect together on human dignity and compassion and resist the criminalization of immigrants.
‘Sense of Place’: An Earth Day Sunday Resource
When Christians in the United States engage in spiritual practices that help us be more present to one another and our local watersheds, we make our ministries more relational and authentic.
Still Evangelical? Literary Festival Panelists Question Label After Trump, #MeToo
The writers on the ethnically and racially diverse panel discussed how politics has strained their relationships with American evangelicalism and has highlighted what they see as the church’s silence on the problems of racism and sexual abuse.
Bill Hybels: Why Sexual Harassment is Not a ‘Distraction’
But for Jesus, how we treat other human beings is anything but a distraction. It's the center of the gospel.
Wakanda Forever: Cultivating Moral Imagination & Beloved Community
What if the theologies of resistance that we cultivate in this moment were rooted in the possibility of Wakanda?
A Glimpse of Heaven
Rare is the person who wants hell to exist because they need it for themselves. We need hell as a convenient place to put all the people we hate. As an option for ourselves and our loved ones, well, hell becomes a lot less popular.
At ‘Red Letter Revival,’ Leaders Give Voice to Evangelicals on the Margins
In Lynchburg they aimed to fellowship, and to reaffirm their values — but also to serve as a thorn in the side of those who promote a conservative brand of their faith that has aligned itself with President Trump.
Of Pastors and Presidents
Once upon a time, we were prepared to think of the president of the United States as the universal symbol of the country. Now he’s little more than the shepherd of one or the other partisan tribe.
Revival: A Liturgy for Repentance
We need an altar call that invites us into a third way and an aisle that leads us to the love of neighbor. We need a raised hand declaring the decision to live for good news that is good for all people.
Break My Heart, Heal My Heart
"Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me.
Break my heart for what breaks yours
Everything I am for your Kingdom's cause
As I walk f...