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Does the use of drones meet just war criteria? That depends on how you define your terms.

“White privilege is your history being taught as a core class and mine being taught as an elective,” wrote a tumblr user in February of 2014. This claim illustrates how education sins in its ignorance. Latin American liberation theologians taught that sin consists not only of personal misdeeds—it is also embedded in social structures that promote harm and inequity. 

James calls Abraham a “friend of God.” In this week’s reading from Exodus, Moses presumes upon a similar divine friendship to offer God advice.

Princeton Theological Seminary's farm grows food. But this isn't the main point.

Luke seems to mislead us in his description of the dinner exchange we will read in this Sunday's Gospel lesson. He tells us, "When [Jesus] noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable," but the words that follow aren't really parabolic. They're just good advice.

The pastor urged the congregation to sign an antigay petition. Clare Byarugaba knew she wasn't the only gay person there.

We cannot be expected to make an informed, soulful decision about the general election when the very process of sharing information drowns out the thing we most need to hear: the voice of God.

I recently read about a tourist who was accidentally locked in Milan’s cathedral, called the Duomo, overnight. The American tourist chose to take advantage of his unexpected lock-in and spent the night “among the cathedral’s rooftop spires.”

This collection offers a rich range of life-giving words from a beloved theologian-novelist-preacher-speaker-essayist and encourager.

Need a book to replenish your political and spiritual imagination this election season? I recommend Adrienne Rich's Collected Poems.

Jesus points out ways in which the line has already been dissolved.

Bacevich provides another case of the fraught dream of managing history that Reinhold Niebuhr critiqued.