Excerpt from “The Deep Down Things”
Since our young years of learning how to sense the bloom in a wine and how to cross the line just enough to get a good laugh out of a story, we’ve exp...
“Ritual Acts”, an Excerpt from “Meaning in the Moment”
Ritual Acts
Our bodies are not passive in rituals; they are active, and that increases the transforming power of rituals. In my sabbatical-ending r...
Caught Up In The Rapture
Christians have always talked about Christ returning.
The earliest creeds of the church talk about Christ’s return. It’s also mentioned in some New...
A Word from the Holy Land: Global Immersion
Please watch this conversation with my friend Jer Swigart from Global Immersion -- LIVE from Jerusalem. He has been working for peace in the Holy Land...
Excerpt from “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future”, by Robert P. Jones
On May 4, 1863, the steamboat Northerner pushed up the Mississippi River from St. Louis, bound for Fort Snelling, a military outpost north of St. Paul...
St. Francis, Pray for Us
Editor's Note: This piece was originally published on the RLC blog on October 4, 2011.
Today (October 4) Christians around the world celebrate ...
We’ve Missed the Point of the Gospel
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
–Mahatma Gandhi
I love the church. As a member ...
Christian Criminal Justice
As I’ve watched the national conversation concerning criminal justice play out among evangelicals in recent years, the focus has typically been either...
Everything is Political, oh my! Why Churches Should Build Better Capacity for Political Dialogue
A short anecdote from a podcast I was listening to recently keeps replaying in my mind: a man was walking with his friend and his friend said, “I’m hu...
An Excerpt from “Sacred Belonging”
We got the news late one Sunday morning in mid-July that my father-in-law had died unexpectedly.
The phone rang loudly that day. Not only did the n...