People keep saying we’ll be forever transformed by this pandemic. I’m skeptical.
Amid pandemic and protest, will we turn to each other and live?
Forgoing congregational singing as a spiritual discipline
Living into the desired new creation is our work—and God’s promise.
Knowing the real Fred means seeing the unseen.
The protests confront us with a difficult question.
Holding in tension our achievements and failures as a nation
Our nation’s public schoolchildren deserve better.
These times call into question the nature and morality of power.
Faith shaped by migration, diaspora, and slavery
Is the Joseph story just an old unsophisticated morality trope?
Small graces can give us hope—even in the pit.
Is LGBT equality economically beneficial for all?
Crunching the numbers with M. V. Lee Badgett
Interpreting Jesus’ healings as a conflict with purity laws is dead wrong
Jesus’ conflict, Matthew Thiessen argues, was with the forces of death.
Envisioning part-time clergy as a blessing rather than a sign of decline
Revitalizing lay leaders to bring congregations new life
What’s behind dehumanization?
A book about the psychology and politics of doing terrible things to one another
