There is a heartening development within the mainstream Church of late: people are starting to…
Here’s when I realized the death penalty was a spiritual and a theological issue, not…
Perhaps you remember the horror of the 2013 Bangladesh garment factory collapse, or maybe you…
If the myriad of tragic events over the last few years has done anything for…
The single largest question I get when talking to people about modern slavery is this:…
There are some days when I simply cannot handle all that is going on in…
Regardless of where you fall on the scale of interest, the most important question is…
Truth is a big deal. In Zechariah 8:16, the prophet says, These are the things…
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the…
Haven’t bought a gift for Father’s Day yet? Want to get your pops something different…
But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and…
The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell…
News is still coming in, but Texas Governor Greg Abbott says at least 14 children…
Too often, when issues of sexual abuse come up, the Church simply stays silent. But…
Last weekend, citizens of Buffalo, New York; Laguna Woods, California; and Houston, Texas, faced attacks…
We cage things we don’t understand. We take away names, replace them for numbers and…
There’s war, and there’s peace. But according to Ron Sider, there’s a third way to engage conflict.
I can’t pinpoint the exact moment when I realized that being sensitive to the hurts…
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was skipping school. In all of the…
In her book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, author Jen Hatmaker mentions this tweet…
I live in a cool college town of 150,000 known for its bike paths and…
The moral arguments against pornography are well-known, and recently, several big-name celebrities and sources like…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law Wednesday that would prohibit abortions as early as…
“Would you like a free upgrade?” the car rental manager asked me. I rented there…
The relationship between faith and country has always been a tenuous one, but that doesn’t change the work that Christians are called to do.
Late Thursday, Brandon Bernard was executed for his role in a double murder that took…
This weekend, consumers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars purchasing flat screen TVs, early…
Editor’s note: A version of this story originally ran in 2016 when former megachurch pastor…
When most people hear the word “thanksgiving,” they inevitably conjure up images of turkey dinners…
Editor’s note: This piece originally ran in 2016. This week, The Satanic Temple is back…
On the convergence of the presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, many will celebrate—deservedly—the long way we’ve come from Dr. King’s campaign for civil rights to the inauguration of our nation’s first black president for his second term. But have we come far enough?
Thanksgiving tends to be overlooked as people cast their eyes towards the 25th day of…
On Tuesday, Dr. Bernice King delivered a stirring sermon from the same pulpit that her…
In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. spent a short number of hours in Palo Alto,…
NBC has fired long-time Today host Matt Lauer after receiving a complaint from a colleague about…
Editor’s note: The story first ran last October. The past few weeks, we’ve seen real…