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Walking through the battleground of Manassas, Virginia, conjures up visions of what happens when mutual respect breaks down in society.

This man picked a very good moment to remind me of his power.

It's odd the way this volume deals with Barack Obama. It's a shame it has to deal with David Barton at all.

Integration is one solution to a history of oppression. New Zealand's churches tried another.

Clinton’s critics are recycling language from the 1990s. The roots of that critique are even older.

In borrowing rituals from religion, Alain de Botton says deeper truth doesn't matter. Is that false?

I'd left the practice of testimony in my childhood church. Then I learned why Luke suggests it when your world is falling apart.

As a witness to evangelical political engagement since the birth of the Christian right in the late 1970s, nothing surprises me anymore.

A one-word change in the parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee could make a world of difference.

Teenage girls navigate a tough landscape. There are tools the church can offer them.

My state has the same number of churches as prisoners. This fact haunts me.

The consequences of this election have been dire for a long time.  

It's not mere chance that the Pacific Northwest was spared worse destruction in the storm last week.

How can God speak through what is soft and breakable? How can we?

A retired colonel taught me about the courage it takes to love our enemies.

For a long time, Luther's hometown lay forgotten.