Refusing to Compromise for Power
How much evil are we prepared to tolerate in our actions or the actions of others in order to accomplish some good?
Dear Conservative Evangelical Christian, Answer Me This
I want to believe that moral character, sacrifice, decency, and goodness are important to you...But every time you have an opportunity to take up your cross and show me, it seems as if you are more interested in prospering white, male, heterosexual, right-wing, conservative power and privilege.
Conservative Evangelical Christianity, The Death of America
The tenets of true freedom, divine dignity, and equality for all are the ultimate obstacles to conservative evangelical Christianity’s battle to take the hill and lord itself over our country.
Why I Bother Being Lutheran: Theology of the Cross
If God was there at the cross, and Jesus rose again, then God could still be here —even after death, even after suffering, after divorce and betrayal. And the theology of the cross that is Lutheran not only heals, but it indicts.
Is Money The Enemy?
JULY 28, 2013 | BY: MICAH BALES -- For most of my life, I have related to money as an enemy. I viewed finances as a necessary evil...
Hitler in Heaven?
JULY 23, 2013 | BY: JOHN WATSON -- You die. You ascend, or transmute, or do whatever happens, and end up in heaven. You are greeted...
“I am a sexual predator. I need help.” Ariel Castro
May 10, 2013 | BY: MORF MORFORD -- Like everyone else I would guess, I have been horrified, appalled and spiritually and...
The Myth of Redemptive Violence
I had a veteran friend once tell me, “The biggest lie I have ever been told is that violence is evil, except in war.” He went on, “My government told me that. My Church told me that. My family told me t...
No Bullies – No Victims
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. -W. H. Auden
Sometimes an issue emerges in a culture that takes us by surprise – not because it is so new, b...
Hurricane Irene and the Wrath of God
“Do you think God sent Hurricane Irene?” a young man asked me with a curious look in his eyes that was as innocent as it was pensive.
My mind flashed back to a headline I remembered reading yesterday about Gle...