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There are many reasons to deny Jesus, and we all have one. 

BLM is writing a new chapter in the history of black people's struggle for full equality. What are the implications for churches?

The young people leading this movement have heard enough about Martin Luther King's dream. It is not enough for church leaders to reply that they don't know much history.

I turned 30 earlier this year, and I can see the difference age has had on my body—and not just on my bald head, because, as my loved ones and old friends would tell you, that started over a decade ago.

We have witnessed decades of churchmen staggering to recognize and apologize for the church's failure to protect uncountable numbers of victims.

In Texas, even pastors are carrying.

Black people can eat at most lunch counters and travel across state lines without being consigned to the back of the bus. But the fundamental right to life continues to be haunted by white supremacy.

Matt talks to the pastor of Hope CRC in Oak Forest, Illinois, about writing sermons as a person with ADD, being a theological outlier, and deep personal loss.

“You know, in Germany there are hordes of young Syrian men raping German women.” The statement hovered in the air menacingly. I suspected that I was in for an interesting encounter as I watched him stride determinedly toward me after I gave a presentation on the Syrian refugee crisis, and how a group I'm part of has sponsored two families now living in our town in Canada, at a local church recently. His jaw was set and his brow was furrowed. 

For career day at my daughter's school, I brought pictures of some of the things pastors do. The students were mostly interested in the funerals.

White Christians have to decide: will we show up and act for racial transformation, or will we sit idly by? But BLM isn't waiting to see what our verdict will be.

For career day at my daughter's school, I brought pictures of some of the things pastors do. The students were mostly interested in the funerals.

It is probably in my top five favorite scripture passages in the whole Bible. We are reading it this Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent. It comes up every three years. It is from 2 Corinthians. "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!"

I often worry that churches are too full of people who are not disappointments.

Although the title refers to divine mocking, this volume focuses primarily on the ways people mock one another around religious beliefs and practices....

Nanotechnology has been revolutionizing science, medicine, and industry for decades, but it took until now for someone to turn it into a religious fashion statement....

Slaughtering animals, washing feet—I can smell the rooms in both Exodus and John.

The BLM movement has issued a clarion call to the church, the black church in particular, to affirm a theology of resistance, not respectability. This means reckoning with who Jesus is.

(The Christian Science Monitor) Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?...

In a nation where, increasingly, belief in God cannot be assumed, and where Christianity is losing more and more of its sway in public discourse, what does membership in a church offer? Or, to put it another way, how might we say that church matters? I’m curious how faith leaders might answer these questions because I recently ran across a very difficult sort of answer.