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Congressional leaders have sat silent as Trump runs roughshod over democratic norms. But they readily answered the call to cut Medicaid.

Hope and change mean something different to me now than they did in 2009.

God doesn’t count the same things we do.

It’s been said that a sermon should be judged by its impact beyond the moment when it’s preached. In the last month, the bishop’s sermon at the National Cathedral has been making a difference.

An administration that presents itself as the champion of beleaguered Christians is instead spreading lies about them.

American political theology has tended to take democracy and the rule of law for granted. What now?

Thankfully, the Christian tradition is filled with models of resistance to unjust leaders.

So is our nation’s long history of choosing economic success over global equity, safety, and wellbeing.

They’re brave to do so. Do they go far enough?

How American evangelicalism baptized male aggression

Maya Angelou says that we develop courage by doing small things. "You wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."

J. Edgar Hoover's influence was even farther reaching than we know.

Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.

Amy Chua considers why we cling to people who look and act like us.

A new book of essays shows that evangelicals aren't all the same culturally or politically. So what's holding them together?

E. J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein, and Thomas Mann see this presidency as a distortion of the country's character. But what if it's the opposite?

This is our Pentecost moment, to move out into the streets, proclaiming the Spirit's presence among all people.

The authoritarian nationalism of the 20th century never quite died. And Americans now aren't wiser than Europeans then.

Bonhoeffer is speaking to his social context, which is shaped by Nazi propaganda. But what he interrogates in Of Folly parallels our current discourse labeled as post-truth or alternative facts.