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Pastors, friendship, and the limits of boundaries
What use are boundaries when you’re sitting with a friend who is about to die?
November 24, Reign of Christ C (Jeremiah 23:1-6; Luke 23:33-43)
The unfaithful shepherd sniffs out and stirs up fear, fragmenting communities.
Episode 67: Minding the Gap
On this week's Sunday Morning Matinee, Matt and Adam talk skateboarding, family, brokenness, and Bing Lau's incredible film Minding the Gap.
When the opioid crisis shows up at our church’s doorstep
Dealing with our community’s real issues
The Mega podcast draws mega laughs
The evangelical satire also offers insight and empathy.
Who is justified? (Luke 18:9–14)
This Reformation Day, I'm preaching the Gospel text from the lectionary.
November 17, Ordinary 33C (Luke 21:5-19)
Jesus’ hearers are well-acquainted with calamity and crisis.
The many varieties of anti-Semitism
Deborah Lipstadt shows how anti-Semitic sentiment can spring up where we least expect it.
How Sister Helen Prejean became a “social justice sister”
“What saves us is learning how to love, even to the point of death.”
FDR’s faith
John Woolverton addresses a gap in Roosevelt scholarship with elegance and insight.
What keeps you going?
After our time in the pediatric cardiac ICU, we brought home a healthy baby. Others made funeral plans.
What is democratic socialism, and where is it headed?
The complex history—and promising future—of a movement
A president who thinks he can do whatever he wants
Trump’s position is not that the facts will vindicate him. It’s that they don’t matter.
What moral fusion organizing can do that callout culture can’t
Build a broad-based movement
The man who volunteered to be imprisoned at Auschwitz
In the face of evil, we tend to keep our heads down. Not Witold Pilecki.