Subversive Peace for this Christmas Season
It is to this group of social outcasts that God chooses to make an announcement of astonishingly good news—good news in which God declares a true peace that subverts the ways of the Empire.
Is This How It All Ends?: Challenging Our Shared Fatalism
It just might be how it all ends – or, after a thousand false starts, how it begins.
An Evolving Evangelism
"Many are asking how the church can continue to influence culture. But this is fundamentally the wrong question."
The Good News That Breaks Cycles of Violence
The pattern of this world is violence, whether individual or national.
Advent 2: Is This Good News?
This Advent, let’s not settle for a sentimental Christmas season.
As Evangelicals Win with Trump, Little ‘Good News’ Is Left in the Religious Right
Trumpism is now business as usual for white evangelicalism.
Six Ways Church Communities Can Be CreatureKind
There’s no need to separate creation care from people care or from our spiritual lives.
The Power of Disillusionment: How to Unlearn Slaveholder Religion
For too long, we’ve been content with a version of the “good news” that is good news for some, but not for all.
The Politics of Christmas
Far from the quaint Hallmark card version of the crèche scene that is foisted on us each year, Luke’s Christmas story is a call to allegiance.
Will America Pick Up Its Cross?
Today the colonizing spirit leads Christian conferences to flash all (or nearly all) white speaker lineups without a blush, promote white worship music as the gold Christian standard around the world, and build mega churches in the mold of mega malls and amusement parks that serve hundreds of thousands music and scripture disconnected from parishioners’ local contexts and needs.