In the United Church of Canada, a liberal congregation is growing. Here's how.
In opioid country, churches get to know their recovery communities.
As a young white pastor, I learned the value of working with black organizations—and not trying to be in charge.
Small deceptions work like a narcotic, making us feel nicely respectable. Especially in church.
Refugee resettlement works. Here's why.
An insight I gleaned from Ernest Hemingway rings true for the mainline church today.
It's a church—and a yoga studio, psychotherapist's office, and Reiki healing space.
On HBO's new series, a young Muslim is accused of murder. But whether he's guilty isn't the point.
The Bible uses the word fear both for fright and awe. This week's texts reveal the difference.
While we're preparing for Jesus' birth, these texts talk about getting ready for the Second Coming.
Uniting the new working class
Today's laborers are more likely cleaning toilets than mining coal. But there's still a need to organize.
The work that begins at retirement
Life's later decades present distinctive virtues—and vices.
When pro-lifers were progressives
Most of us only know the pro-life movement after Roe v. Wade. But there's a fuller history—with surprising turns.
From generation to generation
Yaa Gyasi's novel reveals the freedoms and captivities we all inherit.
Merciful within limits
Pope Francis's theology of mercy has political implications.
Evangelical politicians were among the most vocal opponents of Dilma Rouseff and her party's social programs.