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Amoz’s son
Aren't we fools for believing Isaiah's vision of peace?
When fear meets love
The pastor gave me a tract with Psalm 46 when I was 15 and hospitalized after I had overdosed.
What Christ the King Sunday teaches us about exercising power
If Jesus being king doesn't mean that things turn out well for everyone, what does it mean?
One reason I’m grieving that I’m ashamed to admit
Since the election I've had to face the fact that I don’t want to see God in people who disagree with me.
What this election means right now
I've been told that I do not belong, that I should go back to my own country. But I'm not alone, and we're not alone.
I have a job to do
Today, I have a task as a father of daughters—and as one who preaches the gospel of hope.
In praise of precise language
Most of us are guilty of using words like progressive and conservative to divide between us and them. Can we do better?
Name-calling and Ivory soap
God has “crowned human beings with glory and honor.” This is important to hear amid the demeaning rhetoric of these disheartening days.
Facebook politics and the face-to-face
Arguments about common concerns are most likely to be compelling in person—but that doesn't stop us from trying to make them on social media.
Why I call them the Cleveland ball club
Every time I see Cleveland's baseball mascot, I think of the Sand Creek Massacre—and the two Methodist leaders behind it.
Hope was always there
For a long time I sat with Mary at Jesus' tomb—sad, weeping, hopeless.
Beyond two-party America
The college students I teach are right to be disappointed by the current political system. Can they help us move beyond it?
After the flood
What will we do on November 9?
This is why we give thanks
Expressing gratitude to God only makes sense if you do it even on the bad days.
The peaceful transfer of power
Walking through the battleground of Manassas, Virginia, conjures up visions of what happens when mutual respect breaks down in society.
To the glory of God
In borrowing rituals from religion, Alain de Botton says deeper truth doesn't matter. Is that false?
Rather than or alongside?
A one-word change in the parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee could make a world of difference.
The typhoon
It's not mere chance that the Pacific Northwest was spared worse destruction in the storm last week.
Men, women, and locker rooms
When Bible ministry leader Beth Moore spoke out this week about the objectification of women, I remembered something my wife taught me.