Citizenship by fiat
Political belonging isn’t naturally grounded in land, ancestry, or anything else. It is based on decisions that governments make and continually revise.
What if mercy matters more than empathy?
Christian compassion begins not with imagining another person’s pain but with recognizing our shared dependence on grace.
God’s whole body and ours
A multisensory, embodied approach to worship works well for many people with disabilities—and for everyone else, too.
Has worship become a luxury good?
As working-class stability erodes, congregations are quietly remaking themselves in the image of the middle class.
All atonement theologies are contextual
God is known not in abstraction but among those we police, punish, and forget.
Shared songs with new meaning
My colleague’s Black church was taking a break from anti-racism work with White churches. So we decided to sing together.
In prison, Satan is real
I’ve heard incarcerated women preach about a power that demands renunciation.
Learning humility as a student pastor
Field education invites us to the lifelong work of discovering the Holy Spirit through our stunning inadequacies.
The US media is biased against Palestinians
Compassion compels us to remember people journalists choose to forget.
An ungovernable faith
By refusing to swear oaths, 16th-century Anabaptists took away the state’s primary tool for control.
Church on the run
If I want kinship with my Anabaptist ancestors, I know where to look: in prison.
The gift of interfaith difference
At the Muslim community center, I felt the tension of our divergence. But I also sensed gratitude.
Women posing problems
In the gospels and in the world today, women get in the way and make the world new.
A pulpit without a context
I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.
My son the PK said no to baptism
For now, anyway. After our discernment together, I consider this a success.