Why Paige Patterson’s Apology May Not Be Enough
Paige Patterson has done what none could have predicted: He’s given America’s largest Protestant denomination two black eyes.
On Sin and Social Justice
Even with all the good that we may be doing, we face a brutal reality. If we are really honest, we know we don’t always act in just and righteous ways.
The Power & Legacy of Revivalism
Finney's revivals, as part of calling his listeners to being converted via the power of the Holy Spirit, also called them to a commitment to work for social change.
Sorting Through the Church’s Silence on Sexual Abuse & Assault
Why are we who preach and teach “the truth will set you free” largely bound by silence regarding sexual assault and abuse?
How Abortion Covers a Multitude of Sins, Even Condoning a Pedophile
So-called “values voters” in Alabama appear to be abandoning all values worth having in order to support Moore.
An Altar Call to Support the Captives on Manus
This is what the men on Manus need, the church to live into our baptism. Forget the politics or right or left – we need the politics of grace that is our baptism.
The Gospel of Donald Trump
The darkness that Trump — and we — have cultivated seems to settle between and within each one of us. The only “good news” worthy of the name is from the work of a living God, and we can never afford to forget that.
The Power and the Threat of Kneeling: Colin Kaepernick
You want Kaepernick to go away, to stand up and salute the flag, and shut up because we can tolerate abuse of other human beings but we cannot tolerate being disrupted when we want to pretend that everything is OK.
InterVarsity Offers the World a Gay Saint?
With God as his heartthrob, Coles’ celibacy is a variety of queer love. Queer enough to make both liberals and conservatives squirm.
Salvation for White People
It’s easy to point fingers at extremists carrying torches in Charlottesville. They need to be saved, we say, and we’re right. But we need to be saved too. And our silence gets in the way of our being saved.