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Imagining the grace to come
Witness is an act of trust in a God who sends us to see and tell of all the things God is doing.
Sing Christmas carols during Advent. Put up the tree before Halloween.
God’s RSVP has no date or time.
The power of charismatic narrative
Why has the authority of American elites been swept aside? Historian Molly Worthen argues that it’s because they failed as storytellers.
This political moment demands theology
As Christians, we need to protest authoritarianism and support the people it targets. We also need to underscore the deep foundations of this work.
Ministry and other callings
Kristen Bentley’s research indicates that there is no single right way to be a bivocational pastor.
December 14, Advent 3A (Matthew 11:2-11)
There is ample evidence that Christ is alive and on the move.
New York’s Muslim mayor
The spotlight on Zohran Mamdani’s campaign also illuminated a pervasive fear of the other in our political discourse.
Is fascism inherently Christian?
Antifascist writers of the last century grappled with the same bewilderment we do—and they made sense of their politics theologically.
More life to come (Isaiah 11:1-10)
A magnificent tree is reduced to a stump. But it’s still alive.
Advent in all its terror
If we remove the difficult facts of history leading up to Jesus’ birth, the story loses its power.
Before cancel culture, there was damnatio memoriae
Rome’s political erasures were a precursor to today’s contested US history.
When ableism and racism intertwine
Black autistic pastor and disability scholar Lamar Hardwick shows how ideas around race and disability can cost people their lives.
The night the universe looked back at me
Sometimes we glimpse magnificence in common occurrences. Science stumbles into poetry. We get a taste of singularity.
Singing the Newsboys with Flamy Grant
The musician and drag queen is an exvangelical who came to see that holding on to a theology of self-loathing was just too dangerous.
The social gospel of the streets
Sean Dempsey traces the moral imagination that guided faith-based activists in Los Angeles through five decades of justice work.
Christ in my nerve endings
Living with chronic pain is deepening my understanding of the incarnation.
