Teach your children well. Their father’s hell, did slowly go by. And feed them on your dreams. The one they pick’s, the one you’ll know by.  – Crosby, Stills, Nash,

My cousin-in-law Steve, died this past week at the age of 23 after a heroic and lifelong battle with an autoimmune disease and blood disorder. I shared Stephen and his

A previously undiscovered version of the Christian Bible was recently unearthed during a renovation beneath the bathroom of a Louisville, Kentucky Chick-Fil-A. This new ‘MAGA Translation,’ contains the ‘Gospel According

  History is a good teacher. If we pay attention to her, she reminds us that populations don’t become monstrous overnight, that nations don’t abandon humanity in a single moment,

I’ve been a pastor for twenty-five years and a Christian for most of my life, and I don’t think prayer works anymore—at least not in the way we people of

Andrew luck is tired. He’s tired of being sacked repeatedly by walking, breathing mountains. He’s tired of injuries and surgeries and rehabs and setbacks and re-injury. He’s tired of rumors

Nothing in this life comes for free, even though we sometimes imagine it does. Everything valuable we receive needs to be paid for somehow. Eventually the bill comes due for

There are phrases you hear so much, they start to become white noise: “You’re too political.” “You’re too angry.” “You’re too partisan.” I’ve been a registered Independent for thirty years.

It’s a real shame that school children aren’t guns. If school children were guns, Conservatives would treat them with kid gloves. They’d be ever so careful with their words so

A year ago I walked into an older relative’s house unannounced. They’d been expecting us that day for lunch, but we’d arrived thirty minutes earlier than we’d planned—so we knocked

People tell me things. It is one of the great treasures of my life. When I meet strangers who’ve read my writing, they often feel safe to share what they

This should be the final straw for us, America. Compassionate human beings should not tolerate this. People who claim to be pro-life should be brought to tears. Those espousing family

Back in 2016 I wrote a book called ‘A Bigger Table.’ It was the continuation of my then twenty year journey as a local church pastor, trying to craft spiritual

I have mental illness. I’ve battled it fiercely for more than half my life. Over two decades ago, I began to realize I was different from many people (or at

Yeah, it’s the guns, Republicans. Of course it’s the guns. You’re insulting people’s intelligence when you claim that it isn’t. You’re trying to gaslight us all into imagining we’re not

As I write this it’s Saturday in America. It’s Saturday and there’s been another shooting. Once again we find ourselves here in this terribly familiar place. We are grieving again.

Every day I see people claiming to be Christians. They are everywhere I turn: on Twitter and on TV and at the gas station and across the street and at

“You’re such an angry person.” People say that to me lately—but not anyone who really knows me. Random strangers might lazily toss it off as social media shade designed to

Over eighty percent of white evangelicals (many of them women) voted for Donald Trump in 2016, less than two weeks after video surfaced of him speaking with historic vulgarity about

“If you don’t like this country, then leave.” This is the tired, time-worn refrain sung lately by supporters of this President. Love it or Leave it. Funny, I don’t remember

America is dead. Not the America that I idealized as a boy; not the glittering beacon of equality I imagined it to be through the vaseline-covered lenses of my maleness

Megan Rapinoe won. She won before the trophies and the adulation and the triumphant victory lap. She won before ever standing with arms outstretched as her teammates exploded with combustible

Yesterday a friend on social media challenged me to “only post positive messages for one whole day.” It felt like part social media campaign, part enthusiastic dare, and part gentle

I’m getting really tired of people saying that this President isn’t a religious man. The assertion is incorrect and unfair and it does him a terrible disservice. Donald Trump is