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

Today, a Trump supporter called me a “beta male.” I was on social media, expressing my respect for survivors of sexual assault and women who’ve been subjected to the mansplaining

“You’re being divisive.” Trump supporter, I imagine you think I haven’t heard this. I have. I’m really familiar with the playbook by now. This is the go-to refrain by you

(Warning: The following may be triggering for survivors of abuse.) To Young Men and Women of America, Have you heard us? Is our message getting through? We’ve been talking to

(Warning: May be triggering to survivors of violence.) Christine Blasey Ford is an opportunist. This has been the Republican refrain ever since the professor and mother of two came forward

Recently a group of Evangelical church leaders released a document called The Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, which has since been electronically co-signed by 7,000 clergy members through America.

I was sickened tonight, listening to the stories of the many people living in my home state of North Carolina, who refuse to evacuate areas threatened by Hurricane Florence; not

Horrible days don’t usually start out as horrible days. As we woke up and went to work and got the kids off to school or got in our cars here

The world is better with you in it. I know you may not believe that right now, but it’s true. Since the moment you showed up here you have altered

I confess that I’m a little lost, presently. Lately I’ve become a restless, reluctant nomad. I am a lifelong American, who is profoundly disoriented trying to navigate this nation now.

Colin Kaepernick was right about us, white America. He was right to kneel because when he did, he fully exposed us. He exposed us as we became viscerally disgusted, not

When decency dies, all good people should grieve. Whenever someone of character leaves this planet, the rest of us should mourn that loss, because the attrition leaves us all worse

Every day I meet professed Christians treating LGBTQ people like garbage and trying to convince me that God is making them. You can always tell when people of faith want

Christians supporting Donald Trump are the most morally confused people I’ve ever met. They are profoundly spiritually disoriented. Though their disorientation began much earlier in the Presidential campaign, as day

America could really use a President right now. I have this thought more often than I care to consider. I have it again today. As the funeral for Senator John