Cloaked in black robes, Playmobil’s toy figure of Martin Luther holds a quill in one hand and his German translation of the Bible in the other.

But the inscription on the open pages of the Bible led to a theological controversy and a change to the toy’s design for this year of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

Back in 2015, after consulting with a Protestant theologian, Playmobil, one of Germany’s leading toy manufacturers, rolled out a three-inch plastic figure of Martin Luther.

Macleod Baker Ochola II, 84, a retired Anglican bishop in northern Uganda, is agitating for restorative justice in a region where the wounds of a brutal war unleashed by the Lord’s Resistance Army persist.

Ochola has been responding to concerns that the modern court system may not deliver justice for the people who suffered in the complex conflict.

Protestant missionaries as agents of empire

Cruel 2016 was kind to my words. 

Resistance will be my day job, but I’ll be mindful of restoring my abundant soul.

Matthew is not my favorite Gospel. But where would we be without it?

(The Christian Science Monitor) When President Obama established new national monuments in Utah and Nevada, he noted that the area is “profoundly sacred” for the Ute, Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni peoples.

Churches can be on the frontlines of resistance. 

The incarnation doesn't only mean that God is with us. It means that God is with us as Jesus.

When an anthropologist wants to understand a culture, he or she studies its gods.