The Damaging Effects of Shame-Based Sex Education: Lessons From Elizabeth Smart
JUNE 10, 2013 | BY: KRISTEN HOWERTON -- While I think that abstinence is a great goal for kids (and one I will encourage for my own), I...
Warfare Kills Nonhuman Animals Too
JUNE 3, 2013 | BY: ANDY ALEXIS-BAKER -- The effects of war on nonhuman animals are devastating and widespread. Yet the violence...
The Temple: What Will Be Our Standing Legacy?
May 8, 2013 | BY: MORF MORFORD -- When I see one of the magnificent historic temples or cathedrals, in all of its opulence and ornate craftsmanship, I am...
Christians Pray Over Enbridge Pipeline
BY: WILL BRAUN -- Sixty of us stood in a snowy ditch a mile north of North Dakota. We stood next to an Enbridge pumping station...
Humankind Water – Part of the Solution on World Water Day
RLC INTERVIEW -- In advance of World Water Day, we had the opportunity to sit down with TJ Foltz, the President of Humankind Water...
The Economy and a Pair of Shoes
BY: TOBIAS ROBERTS -- Local is community, and ultimately, what is good for the local community, is good for everything else. Prioritizing...
Forty Days of Lent: An Almost Amish Journey Toward a Slower, Simpler, More Sustainable Life
BY: NANCY SLEETH -- Use this season of Lent as a time to grow closer to God and simplify your life. Try a new suggestion from this list...
Interrupting Inequality — from Wall Street to Your Street
BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- Ten years ago, we threw a party on Wall Street. It was one year after 9/11 and nine years before...
What Can We Say? Theology for Murder and for Living
BY: KENT ANNAN --"Fred, " I ask in Creole last Friday in Port-au-Prince, "do you mind giving us...
Covetous Leaders: How the Religious Right gets it Exactly Wrong
The authors of the Bible did not write with a constitutional democracy in mind. Nevertheless scripture offers guidance that can be useful to us in our...