Why We Need to Build This Meme: #JesusIsMyCandidate
BY: MORGAN GUYTON -- Every Christian who cares more about Jesus than winning arguments or staying...
(Un)Patriotic – Politics are Ugly
Politics are ugly. Especially in an election year.
Recent polls show this election is heating up, and the fury with which each side expresses their views seemingly deepens every day. Our Twitter feeds are over...
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 own present situation. Though the Bible has nothing t...
Commendable in an Age of Short Cuts: Kings, Presidents and Prophets
The Presidential campaign has reached a fever-pitch. Exaggeration, half-truths and lies abound as each party scratches and claws toward election day in hopes of victory. It seems that truth in political campai...
Why I voted for Jesus instead of Obama in the primary
Why I voted for Jesus instead of Obama in the primary…
Because, obviously, President Obama is uncontested during the primary election so nothing is actually on the line by writing in a candidate like Jesu...
BREAKING: Obama administration stops deporting young immigrants
A day after the Evangelical Immigration Table released their "Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform, " the Obama administration stepped forward to announce they will stop deporting young il...
On justice, marriage, and Obama
…because not quite enough has been said about this yet.
If you’ve read a news magazine, been online or watched CNN in the past week, you know that May 9 President Obama finally came out and declared he was f...
The politics of having faith and serving in government
It breaks my heart today to see how often politics shapes our faith, rather than faith shaping our politics. Over the years the church in America has become so biblically illiterate that we are often being m...
God's Word to Democrats – An Interview with Brian McLaren
No one enjoys being told bluntly, “you’re wrong.” It’s a statement that, even when surrounded by certainty, must be conveyed and expressed with grace, tranquility and, sometimes, a little humor. And in a ...
Jesus for Prez
Last Monday was Presidents day.
So I tweeted, 'Jesus for president.' on my facebook wall, and with several followers on twitter, this generated some discussion. Some were in support of Jesus as a candidate...