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What does it mean to worship an all-powerful God?
These times call into question the nature and morality of power.
Is LGBT equality economically beneficial for all?
Crunching the numbers with M. V. Lee Badgett
Interpreting Jesus’ healings as a conflict with purity laws is dead wrong
Jesus’ conflict, Matthew Thiessen argues, was with the forces of death.
What if COVID-19 changes nothing?
People keep saying we’ll be forever transformed by this pandemic. I’m skeptical.
August 16, 20A (Genesis 45:1-15)
Is the Joseph story just an old unsophisticated morality trope?
Civil rights advocate C.T. Vivian dies at 95
C.T. Vivian, a minister and advocate for civil rights who worked with Martin Luther King Jr., died July 17 in Atlanta....
Civil rights activist John Lewis dies at 80
John Lewis, the longtime civil rights activist, congressman, and ordained Baptist minister who preached about getting in “good trouble,” died July 17 at the age of 80....
The pandemic calls for closed hymnals
Forgoing congregational singing as a spiritual discipline
What's wrong with cancel culture?
A suggested agenda for the signers of the open letter to Harper's on free speech
Why there is no quest for the historical Mr. Rogers
Knowing the real Fred means seeing the unseen.
Surely, God is in Zoom worship (16A; Genesis 28:10-19a)
But that doesn't necessarily mean the sacraments belong there.
What Christian hope looks like during a pandemic
Living into the desired new creation is our work—and God’s promise.
Envisioning part-time clergy as a blessing rather than a sign of decline
Revitalizing lay leaders to bring congregations new life
Why the Washington, DC, football team needed to change its name
This victory won’t amount to much if Americans don’t understand why racist team names are a problem.
What’s behind dehumanization?
A book about the psychology and politics of doing terrible things to one another
Maybe this really is a time of divine judgment
Amid pandemic and protest, will we turn to each other and live?
August 9, 19A (Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28; Psalm 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b)
Small graces can give us hope—even in the pit.
Turkey's president formally makes Hagia Sophia a mosque
On July 10, the president of Turkey formally converted Istanbul's sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 dec...
Is the destruction of monuments a rewriting of history?
Holding in tension our achievements and failures as a nation
US Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schools
The Supreme Court elated religious free exercise advocates and alarmed secular groups with its June 30 ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the sep...