Christians Pray Over Enbridge Pipeline
BY: WILL BRAUN -- Sixty of us stood in a snowy ditch a mile north of North Dakota. We stood next to an Enbridge pumping station...
Binary and Quantum Morality: Two lads, a prostitute, morality and quantum computing
BY: MAL GREEN -- In our Christian belief system, we may have settled for a linear logic, binary thinking approach to doctrine...
(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...
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...
David Barton & the Conservative Rediscovery of Integrity
One of the most hopeful things that I have witnessed in recent times was the decision of evangelical Christian publisher Thomas Nelson to discontinue publishing David Barton's Jefferson Lies. For those of you w...
Evangelicals and Space Exploration: Do We Have Curiosity?
Source: WikiMedia
“Holding the stars is the man that carries my scars.”
-P.O.D., Tribal Warriors
“Who but You could breathe and leave a trail of galaxies and dream of me?”
-Natalie Grant, Alive
In betw...
Jimmy Carter Tries to Pull the Log from America’s Eye
Source: Erik S. Lesser/AP/File
Earlier this week, former President Jimmy Carter critiqued the United States for its (read: our) deteriorating record on human rights and rule of law in the last decade.
But tho...
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...
Beyond Bootstrap Success Stories
Few things are more offensive to those committed to the “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” philosophy than the message that “the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, n...