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May 20, Pentecost B (John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15)
Jesus has gone underground. That's the setting of our Gospel reading this Pentecost.
Did Christianity destroy classical pagan culture?
Catherine Nixey is right: the early Christians were violently destructive. So were the Romans, the Persians, and the plagues that swept across the ancient world.
A pastor's job isn't to make bad things seem better
If you have to choose between offering false hope and the truth, go with the truth.
Easter is not good news without the cross
The shock of Easter isn’t just the empty grave. It’s that God comes back from death and doesn’t condemn the unrighteous ones who put him there.
The quiet Christian witness of A Rocha Canada
The evangelical group teaches farming, provides hospitality to newly arrived refugees, and watches the local salmon.
Bob Ricks, FBI's main spokesman in Waco standoff, looks back to 25 years ago
“Probably the best description of him is a master manipulator,” Ricks said of David Koresh, who died in a fire in 1993 along with dozens of his Branch Davidian followers.
Nonbinary gender and the diverse beauty of creation
In Genesis, God separates the dry land from the sea. But God also makes marshes, estuaries, and coral reefs.
Slow Burn and Babylon Berlin offer historical lenses on our troubling present
A podcast about Watergate and a TV drama about Weimar Germany remind us that we don't know how our own story will end.
Life even more bewildering than death (Luke 24:36b-48)
Jesus' death is almost impossible to accept. Then he comes back.
Red Letter Revival seeks to give voice to those on evangelical margins
A group of progressive Christians gathered near Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Liberty University, both critiquing Falwell's theology and asking to pray with him.
Democrats and Republicans both follow liberalism's playbook
Both parties advocate freeing individuals to pursue self-interested goals, argues Patrick Deneen. This has fractured society.
Clarence Jordan's radical experiment in following Jesus
What makes a person able to see evil and stand against it without fear?
NCC draws faith groups to antiracism event
The ecumenical National Council of Churches has also launched a Truth and Racial Justice Initiative, “a nationwide accounting of how churches and their leaders have been complicit in, and have perpetuated, racism in America.”
Settlement will prevent illegal NYPD surveillance of Muslims
Police spied on ordinary people at mosques, restaurants, and schools starting in 2002.
Indian state recognizes 800-year-old tradition as a separate religion
Lingayat Dharma “started as a revolt and protest against Hindu orthodoxy,” said a leader in the movement advocating status as a minority faith.
5 do's and 5 don'ts for using your church building well
A physical space can be at the vital center of ministry—if you don't make it an idol.
A fictional world where abortion and IVF are illegal—and the women who live there
Leni Zumas's novel makes a political point. More importantly, it cultivates empathy.
May 10, Ascension of the Lord (Luke 24:44-53)
The church organizes its life in the wake of absence.
Why are the “good guys with guns” so sure they're good?
"It's a sin problem," goes the slogan, "not a gun problem." Whatever definition of sin is operative here, it isn't Paul's.