What Would Jesus Say to the NRA?
BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- What does the birth of the baby Jesus 2000 years ago have to offer the violent, troubled world we live in?
Republicans "Own" Every Child Killed by a Gun and their Weeping Parents
BY: FRANK SCHAEFFER -- Who wants to "own" the pictures of weeping mothers? The Republican Party does. As if killing themselves with anti-gay...
Rev. Richard Land: Greatest Commandment Justifies Deadly Force
BY: CHRISTIAN PIATT -- Richard Land is hardly alone in being a Christian and also advocating strongly for what many call their Second...
Five Children’s Questions About the Sandy Hook Tragedy
I’ve seen plenty of articles responding to the shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Some are angry, some pastoral, still others, prophetic in their call for change in various forms. I have little to add to ...
Bullshit National Grieving
A resounding gong, a clanging cymbal, bullshit: that is what this all-too-familiar national liturgy of grief is when it's acted out once again without having taken the available steps to avoid repeating this ...
The God who cries when children die
BY: KURT WILLEMS -- This is a world of loss. A world of instability. Today we grieve in light of such a world where a troubled young man can...
Murder in Our Hearts
BY: MORF MORFORD -- If there is anything Christians should never need a reminder of, it is how much God hates murder...
Libyan Ambassador Stevens’ Death Tragic, Hopeful, Ironic
BY: CHRISTIAN PIATT -- I’ve been reflecting on the recent events in Libya involving the death of...
Why This Christian Will Never Own a Gun
As a Christian and a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) I often struggle with Scripture and how God intends for me to live in the world. Jesus and our faith demands of us to make difficult decision...
Greater Love?
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:12-14
That was the inscription under the stained-glass window in a military chapel of a paratrooper in full battle gear on h...