I’d just finished a speaking event a year or so ago and was meeting with people who’d stayed after to say hello, have a book signed, or share some thoughts

Christian Friend, I’ve been meaning to talk to you. I’m trying to reconcile the things I see right now. I see your house, carefully strewn with glowing lights, fragrant boughs

I really don’t care about him. I know you think I do, but my sadness really has nothing to do with him. I know who he is—and more accurately, I

She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted. – A small, scared man named Mitch McConnell, referencing Senator Elizabeth Warren in 2017 Elizabeth Warren was not the first

The Bible can be abused in countless ways. We see it every day. It can be used to justify discrimination, to ratify war, to control behavior, to police sexuality, to

I see things clearly now, friend, which is why I’m writing. For a long time I thought I hated you. You would pop up on my social media feed, drive

As I watched the funeral and memorials for President George H.W. Bush, I couldn’t help but think about how powerless he was during it all. Conversations were taking place, tributes

You’ve probably seen the ubiquitous meme floating around, or at one point or another you’ve posted or expressed the thought contained in it: I CAN’T ADULT TODAY. It’s the idea

Dear Phobic Christian, I’m not sure how you ended up here. I don’t know how you ended up deciding that anyone else’s body, their gender identity, or their sexual orientation

Faith can be a difficult thing to quantify. Generally speaking, it’s nearly impossible to discern someone else’s religious convictions, the authenticity of their confession of belief. But sometimes you’re able

Yes, there is a war on Christmas in America. The Evangelicals were right. The pulpit-pounding preachers were right. Franklin Graham was right. The Republicans were right. Donald Trump was right.

What are you thankful for? If prompted, even those of us like myself who are naturally gratitude-impaired, could rather easily name what we consider to blessings or good fortune: our

Stacey Abrams won. The fact that she officially announced she will not be taking the office she ran so beautifully for, is a mere technicality—one that good people who were

“I think I’m losing my mind.” If I had a dime for every time I’ve heard that over the course of the past two years as I’ve traveled this country,

Growing-up, I wanted to be Peter Parker. What young boy wouldn’t? Sure, being bitten by a radioactive spider had to hurt like hell initially, but you have to admit the

I imagine you’re exhausted right now.  It’s easy to wake up on a morning like this (if you’ve slept at all), and to feel as though your efforts over the

We’re all worried about that Tuesday, America. It is the place our minds and hearts are solely fixed on. Right now our energies are understandably marshaled and our hopes pinned

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

Dear Non-White Evangelicals, I’ve been a pastor in the local church for the past 24 years, much of that in megachurches in the Bible Belt. I’ve been shoulder to shoulder

People tell me that I’m anti-Republican. I suppose technically they’re correct, but they’re also missing the point—sometimes intentionally and sometimes mistakenly. Well-meaning friends might say this as an oversimplified bit

This week, in a conversation about the recent Supreme Court hearings, a friend and Trump supporter who claims to be Christian, reiterated a recurring theme: Providence. “This is God’s doing.”

The Left has done a great service to the Religious Right. For decades, we’ve allowed them to write our story for us. We have let them define themselves and to

Dear Teenage Boys, These are already difficult times, for you I know. I understand how confusing it can be to wake up every day, with all the changes inside and

Yesterday I decided I was through fighting. I was finished pushing back and speaking up and showing up and going on. I concluded that it was all too exhausting and