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...
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 ...
The Grammar of Gun Control
BY: MORF MORFORD -- We treat guns as a thoroughly dysfunctional family might talk about a family scandal; we just don't...
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 ...
Mass Killing is our Idea of Patriotism
BY: FRANK SCHAEFFER -- The horrible violence in a small school against OUR six-year-olds perfectly reflects the nature of our...
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...
The Judgment of Sodom – When Disaster Strikes
BY MORF MORFORD: When disaster, human or natural does strike, the theology vultures circle, searching for and scrap of...
Exterminate them without mercy: The problem of Joshua, genocide, and the character of God
BY: KURT WILLEMS -- Does the church have the same kind of divine license to kill others who oppose our...
How To (and Not To) Respond to the Current Crisis in the Middle East
BY: JON HUCKINS -- My heart is heavy. Every day for the past week, every social media outlet has...
Healing Toxic Faith: Did Jesus die to save us from God?
Why did Jesus have to die? Was it to appease a wrathful God's demand for punishment? Does that mean Jesus died to save us from God? How could someone ever truly love or trust a God like that? How can that ever ...