I’ve preached more than 800 funeral sermons. Many of these deaths have marked me.
Church
My task at funerals is to share the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
Reckoning with the careless ableism of the church
Amy Kenny’s call for disability justice leads with righteous anger but offers grace.
How Christians in Korea helped build American evangelicalism
Helen Jin Kim exhumes the Korean roots of three major evangelical organizations, all present at a 1973 Billy Graham rally in Seoul.
The Biden administration has reversed Trump’s rhetoric around migrants but not all of his policies.
The prophets God sends among us are often vilified, distorted, and silenced.
When our church offered Rosa sanctuary, our ordinary habits became a politics of hospitality.
When illness took over my life, I developed a new understanding of the Eucharist.
“I have the sense that Mechthild of Magdeburg’s whole life was lived in pursuit of her divine beloved.”
My conversation partner may have been a prophet—or a quack. My job was simply to listen.
In the absence of strong political leadership, someone has to fill the void.
I was a United Methodist pastor. He was a campus minister with Cru.
Does Catholic higher ed have to sell its soul?
A truly Catholic university, says James Heft, steers a course between secularization and insularity.
“My mama was womanist. My grandma is womanist. Just because they don’t have the language or the identifier doesn’t make them less womanist.”
What is the church’s true crisis of decline?
It’s probably not what you think.
