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Barely a day after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, at the start of this year’s devastating run of natural disasters, I saw the first of many appeals pop up on social media. Please contribute…

For almost ten years now, the folks at Sojourners and other progressive evangelical outfits have been reminding us that ” budgets are moral documents.” All well and good. I agree. But I will add that…

There was a time in the Catholic Church when supporters of doctrinal orthodoxy could count on the Vatican to do their policing for them. But the advent of a pope who sees his role as less about…

You learn things reading church newsletters. Take, for example, this very interesting tidbit about First Congregational UCC, a historic downtown Atlanta church, celebrating its 150th anniversary. Big…

What inspired you to write Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism? What inspired me to write this book was my growing irritation and even revulsion at our general…

Thinking about the place of violence in American civil religion helps solve a perplexing theme in the debate over professional athletes’ protests.

OutRight Action International has published quotes from speakers at the meeting of the LGBTI Core Group during the recent United Nations General Assembly. The LGBTI Equal Rights Association for…

On Tuesday, September 19, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi delivered a speech in English to the international community. In the speech, she explained that her nascent democratic…

In late July, California Rep. Maxine Waters’ “reclaiming my time” became the rallying cry heard round the world. Manifestos emerged as women and people of color discerned the ways in which time has…