Guest Post
Do the best biblical scholars love Jesus?
Some questions—as opposed to a categorical judgment—about Joel Green's post
Thinking about the Paul Manafort sentence as a prison abolitionist
Patrick Beadle is serving 12 years after police found medical marijuana in his car. His incarceration doesn't make me feel safer, and neither does Manafort’s.
If the U.S. sends this man back to the DRC today, he will probably be killed
I would have thought we would welcome a pro-democracy activist.
The Methodist mess in St. Louis
The UMC's response to declining membership is to spend millions deciding who else we can exclude.
Communion at the border wall in Tijuana
What does it mean to worship in the middle of a wound?
Mary Oliver broke my heart
The poet helped me to realize how little I knew about a life observed.
What’s the good news in the season after Epiphany?
I'm here, says Jesus.
Honoring the memory of world Christianity expert Lamin Sanneh
Sanneh was a rigorous polymath who cared about not only theoretical work but the everyday lives of those who believe.
A visit to the border with the New Sanctuary Coalition
In Tijuana, we witnessed the resilience and humanity of the migrant movement.
From cultural competency to cultural humility
A means of grace from the world of human services
Christians can’t confront violence by blaming “both sides” and their incivility
We don't have to choose a political party. We do have to name the problem for what it is.
Remembering Eugene Peterson the pastor
Gene was deeply rooted in scripture and in a Christ-centered spirituality.
The Jesus who got into good trouble
Jesus was righteous. Was he innocent?
The church’s response to sexual assault survivors
We should not be surprised when Christian men belittle and ignore women who speak out. Biblical heroes of the faith do the same.
Racism, sexual predators, and my experiences with both
I’ve re-watched the footage of Anita Hill.
Can satire save us?
It can prompt repentance, anyway—if we let it.
In Revelation, faithful testimony is peaceable—not necessarily civil
The disruptive way of the Lamb
How Jeff Sessions reads Romans 13 and how my Mennonite Sunday school class does
In the hands of coercive power, the Bible is a weapon.
Seeing myself in the eyes of a North Korean
As a child born in South Korea, I was taught that every North Korean is evil. As an adult, I found myself face to face with one.
Michael Curry’s impression on the bride and groom
The bishop preached first and foremost to the royal couple themselves—about their marriage and the work and witness they have said they want to offer.