Dear Church Leaders, Over the past two decades I’ve been a pastor to students. It has been the greatest joy of my life to be allowed into the trenches of

Racism is a prolific and creative killer. It is entrepreneurial in its malice and it will use whatever means necessary to eliminate those it is threatened by and fearful of.

Some days I wonder if this nation can be saved. I know what I’m supposed to believe: that America is still in its infancy, that it is a beautiful idea;

I am a person of profound privilege. As a white, cisgender, heterosexual Christian man raised in America, I have had nearly every benefit and buffer afforded human beings, and this

In the book of Exodus, when Moses and Aaron demand Pharaoh’s release of the Israelites, they are reminding him that humanity was designed to be free; that every single human

I am a collector of stories. I watch people, I listen closely to them, I eavesdrop on their conversations in person and on social media, and I look for the

Dear Friend, I don’t know your story. I cannot imagine how you feel. I can’t fathom how difficult this road has been for you: the swirling storm of the questions

The ten victims in Boulder and the eight in Atlanta were survivors. They had managed to weather the greatest public health crisis of our lifetime: an insidious and relentless virus,

America has a white male problem. If you’re living here and you’re not a white male, I likely don’t have to do much to convince you of that fact. You’ve

Words are stunningly versatile things. They have the ability to either create or to destroy, to lift us or level us, to give us wings or to crush us beneath

The Catholic Church doesn’t need to bless same-gender unions. The Southern Baptist Church doesn’t. The United Methodist Church doesn’t. No church needs to. God already blesses them—that is, if God

They would not help people. Not one of them. They all voted no on giving aid to Americans during the single greatest health crisis of our lifetimes: one that has

The first time I came across an article about anti-maskers,  I thought it had to be satire. “There’s no way that’s real.” I responded almost involuntarily, all but certain that

Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP I’ve seen this movie before. It doesn’t end well. As a Christian for most of my life and a pastor for nearly three decades, I’m quite familiar

President Joe Biden is a man who understands loss. You can see it in the deep lines on his face, you can hear it in the way his voice shakes,

500,000 people in a year, gone. 5 full University of Alabama Stadiums. 192 9-11 attacks. 8.6 Vietnam Wars. 500,000 lives in 12 months. 500,000 mothers, best friends, favorite uncles, beloved

You’ll never go broke betting on Republicans to do the wrong thing. Of course, Ted Cruz jetted off to Cancun in middle of a monstrous winter storm along with his

“God will not be mocked.” Growing up a Christian, I’ve heard that phrase more times than I can count, often punctuating the finger-wagging sermons of sweaty, red-faced televangelist’s in their

Actor Gina Carano was fired from the Lucasfilm-produced series The Mandalorian, broadcast on Disney+, after months of fan pressure in the wake of Carano’s steady social media stream of anti-mask,

I thought we had an agreement here. Human beings are supposed to have a bottom: a base level of decency that defines us, a place we will not go to

                            Photo: Marvel Studios WARNING: The following contains spoilers and/or possible spoilers for Marvel’s WandaVision on Disney+.

As I watched Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s gripping Instagram account of the January 6th terrorist attack on the Capitol, while in awe of her strength, moved by her candor, and sickened

Christian. To paraphrase a wise man, “They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.” Every day my timeline is filled with God

Something’s wrong here. I can feel it in my bones. That wrong-ness wakes me up at night. It shortens my breath and twists my stomach into knots. It furrows my