We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out quiet voices, and many people have stopped listening to the cries of their neighbors. Lots of fol...
Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing...
...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killi...
the church was an international institution long before globalization.
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
Only God is awesome.
W. E. B. DuBois, a co-founder of the NAACP, wrote, Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color-line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph.
Peace is not just about the absence of conflict; it’s also about the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. even distinguished between the devil’s peace and God’s true peace. A counterfeit peace...
A friend and I prepared a video clip once for a worship service. Our goal was to capture people’s responses to the word Christian, so we took a video camera and hit the streets, from the trendy arts d...