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Today's laborers are more likely cleaning toilets than mining coal. But there's still a need to organize.

Arguments about common concerns are most likely to be compelling in person—but that doesn't stop us from trying to make them on social media.

As a young white pastor, I learned the value of working with black organizations—and not trying to be in charge.

Every time I see Cleveland's baseball mascot, I think of the Sand Creek Massacre—and the two Methodist leaders behind it.

They share a faith background, but one supports school choice and the other opposes it. Here’s why.

It's a church—and a yoga studio, psychotherapist's office, and Reiki healing space.

Life's later decades present distinctive virtues—and vices.

For a long time I sat with Mary at Jesus' tomb—sad, weeping, hopeless.

White flight, preachers and social media, and the tricky relationship between church and world.  

Most of us only know the pro-life movement after Roe v. Wade. But there's a fuller history—with surprising turns.

In the United Church of Canada, a liberal congregation is growing. Here's how.

While we're preparing for Jesus' birth, these texts talk about getting ready for the Second Coming.

Sometimes you have to struggle to a new height, away from the crowded ground level, to gain new vision.

On HBO's new series, a young Muslim is accused of murder. But whether he's guilty isn't the point.

The college students I teach are right to be disappointed by the current political system. Can they help us move beyond it?

The late-term abortion I chose was the end of a dream.