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The substance of small things I’ve seen
Hope and change mean something different to me now than they did in 2009.
God doesn’t count the same things we do.
Mariann Budde stoked fires of mercy
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.
Why are Trump and Musk blocking the church’s work with refugees?
An administration that presents itself as the champion of beleaguered Christians is instead spreading lies about them.
What is active citizenship in the era of rule by decree?
American political theology has tended to take democracy and the rule of law for granted. What now?
How shall we render?
Thankfully, the Christian tradition is filled with models of resistance to unjust leaders.
Trump’s refugee policy is a miserable moral failure
So is our nation’s long history of choosing economic success over global equity, safety, and wellbeing.
Prominent evangelical scholars are, once again, disavowing Trump
They’re brave to do so. Do they go far enough?
by Greg Carey
Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s history of the manly godly man
How American evangelicalism baptized male aggression
Courage through small things
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."
How the FBI has shaped American religion
J. Edgar Hoover's influence was even farther reaching than we know.
Trump's rotten fruit and my own
Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.
Tribalism is natural. It's also destroying us.
Amy Chua considers why we cling to people who look and act like us.
by LaVonne Neff
The many perspectives of American evangelicalism
A new book of essays shows that evangelicals aren't all the same culturally or politically. So what's holding them together?
by David Heim
Is Trump a deviation from American values or an expression of them?
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?
Hitting the pavement instead of the sheetcake
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.
by Gary Dorrien
Alternative facts in Bonhoeffer’s Germany
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.