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Made right (11 A; Romans 5:1-8)
I fear we may reject the justification metaphor too quickly and understand it too shallowly.
Imagination as a lens for making sense of the world
Cultivating a shared Christian imagination
The coronavirus lockdown was doomed before the mass protests began
Its demise came from the same system that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
The Beyoncé Mass places black women’s stories at the center—and proclaims God’s love
The music gets people in the door. Yolanda Norton’s preaching might be what sticks to their bones.
James Baldwin reminds us not to be surprised by this
Facing the “intolerable trouble” of antiblack violence
The coronavirus is helping us rehearse for our own deaths
“A lot of people want to talk about the big questions; they just don’t know how to get started.”
A non-Christian’s argument for Christianity’s positive influence
Tom Holland doesn’t shout that secularists have no clothes. He whispers that they bear a Christian label.
The urgent need for deep changes in American policing
Are the police meant to protect people? Or to fight them?
The best judges of my theology are the littlest ones
The questions that plunge me into a cloud of unknowing most often come from my Sunday school students.
July 5, Ordinary Time 14A (Genesis 24:34–38, 42–49, 58–67)
Doesn’t God have better things to do than arrange marriages?
My pandemic comfort viewing
Three TV shows and movies that have combated loneliness and brought welcome distraction
What I’d like to say to President Trump about the Bible
I’d tell him a secret I learned from Eugene Peterson.
Wondering the Trinity (Genesis 1:1-2:4a)
Let’s not pretend that God hid secret Jesus messages in the Hebrew Bible like Easter eggs.
June 28, Ordinary Time 13A (Matthew 10:40–42)
What happens when we are the refugees, the strangers, and the dying?
Muslim voters are getting organized for the 2020 election
And they could determine the outcome.
Being church while the neighborhood burns
“There’s a fire that cannot be extinguished except by justice.”