Voices
Debie Thomas
Jesus is the question
He might be the answer, too. But he doesn’t offer much in the way of tweetable platitudes.
Jonathan Tran
Anti-racism’s mission drift
Privileged progressives have turned their attention from structures and systems to sentimentalism.
Brian Bantum
Did God intend for Adam and Eve to live forever?
Maybe immortality is about more than not being dead.
Yolanda Pierce
What I wished for
Sometimes we can’t express what we want, even when we are in desperate need.
Alejandra Oliva
Love is revision
Marriage is an opportunity to keep working on the same story each day.
Philip Jenkins
Smashing statues
Iconoclasm isn’t just an expression of anger. It’s how we try to make new worlds.
Heidi Neumark
The transfiguration of Larissa
When my parishioner returned to church, she seemed to have crossed a threshold that revealed her true self.
Rachel Mann
The skin of Christ
The church is a body: scarred and punctured but feeling its way through the world.
Debie Thomas
Reclaiming the E word
Evangelism has become a dirty word among progressive Christians. But don’t we have good news to share?
Julian DeShazier
The little engine that needed collaborators
Clergy burnout happens when churches expect pastors to do everything and pastors oblige.
Jonathan Tran
Thinking through abortion ethics in the classroom
What if we began with character, my students and I asked, rather than rights?
Jonathan Tran
Giving disappointment its due
Some of our dreams won’t be fulfilled. While this may be a mercy, that’s no consolation.
Yolanda Pierce
Believing in the future
Everything I learn about science fills me with spiritual wonder.
Julian DeShazier
Our holy, human bodies
To build the Beloved Community, we need to think and talk and act differently about bodies.
Melissa Florer-Bixler
Our living waters are struggling to breathe
River baptisms are becoming a casualty of polluted waters.
Brian Bantum
The roots of my deconstruction
The cracks in my faith came slow, like when plants grow under concrete.