A Here-and-Not-Yet Gospel of Peace
Too often, we have numbed the aches and groans of the world in a false peace that seeks to resolve and explain away our neighbor’s pain (or worse yet, to blame them for it).
The New War on Christmas
This week also marks the 9th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting (December 14), one of those all-too-familiar moments when our country said, “Never again”… and then let it happen again and again.
Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?
On Thursday (Dec. 9), Oklahoma executed Bigler “Buddy” Stouffer, a 79-year-old deeply committed Christian who has maintained his innocence since being...
Julius Jones was spared by a governor who prayed. Let’s all now pray to end the death penalty.
The irony cannot be missed. Christians all over the world were praying that a Christian governor would not execute a fellow Christian brother who is almost assuredly innocent.
The Mark of Cain: On Who Deserves to Live
Killing in the name of God should be the ultimate oxymoron – the most extreme self-canceling, obvious-to-all contradiction.
American Altar: Poetry, Gun Violence, and the Gods to Whom We Sacrifice
We Americans are much slower to see the idols of our own times and cultures.
The Wrong Debate: On Alabama’s New Gas Chamber
As states grapple with how to resume killing, the only debate seems to be over the method.
The Amnesia of ‘Never Forget’
Abroad, “never forget” hides a slow forgetting of the universal morality to which we once aspired as a country.
Faith Leaders Gather in Houston in Response to Gun Violence
The Red Letter Christians’ gathering went on despite the cancellation of the NRA event.
For Afghanistan, Hospitality is the Least We Should Do
This knowledge should lead us to lament the terrible damage we have caused, and this should then shape how we move forward.