The Dangers of (Poverty) Porn
Poverty porn reinforces stereotypes by telling a skewed story about who people living on the edges really are...
In the Name of the Christ Child Refugee
Organizations have been bringing North American “family members” to be a sign of the love of God and to return to tell the story.
America and the Loss of Collective Memory
Collective memory, even painful collective memory, can be a great force for binding together communities, faith groups, and even nations.
Keep Standing Up for Health Care: It’s Personal
Someone else’s mom needs cancer medicine. Someone else’s dad has diabetes. Someone’s baby will die without health care.
Standing in Wonder Woman’s Boots
As this newest version of Wonder Woman hits the theaters, it is clearly more than just another film.
From Lament to Healing: Why ‘#ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear’ Matters
These conversations not only draw attention to the hard truths and injustices within church and society, but also guide us to prayerful acts of repentance and restoration.
Not Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, but “Pro-Voice”
What if there was another way to enter into this debate with a posture of compassion, humility, and deep listening?
REVIEW: “Better: Waking Up to Who We Could Be” by Melvin Bray
We can do a better job of waking up to the realities of the marginalized and the oppressed.
Painting Fences and Making Names
Tom Brokaw called them the greatest generation.
My grandfathers were a proud part of a generation that fought Hitler, saved the world from tyranny jumped started the US economy. Not a bad list for a group of ...