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March 2018

March 17, 2018

Moderate Nazis are called Nazis

Germany's authoritarian Nazi Party had members who were moderates. Moderate Nazis were called Nazis. There...

August 2017

August 14, 2017

A letter for our times

In the aftermath of the chaos in Charlottesville, too many moderates remain silent. Anti-American, anti-Semitic...

June 2017

June 21, 2017

He Was My Brother

On June 21, 1964, in Neshoba County, Mississippi, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

Embracing evil

When some Christians talk about Jesus, they are simply wrong. Their politics are more important...

February 2017

February 10, 2017

Baptist women in ministry

Despite the efforts of Southern Baptists and other fundamentalists to rewrite history and erase ordained...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

"What you do for the least of these, you do for me."

On the day the world recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the White House issued...

January 27, 2017

A racist message in plain sight

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Trump White House released a statement that made invisible...

January 15, 2017

Character as clear as black and white

The president-elect of the United States kicked-off the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend by...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

Saint Nicholas’ Day

Last weekend at the Mall of America in Minnesota, Larry Jefferson donned his Santa apparel,...

November 2016

November 12, 2016

Kristallnacht

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Original sin

The idea of original sin really is original, it's not in the Bible. It's a...

April 04, 2016

"What we need in the United States"

April 03, 2016

“To make gentle the life of this world"

April 4 marks the 48th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. King...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Watch Night

I learned of Watch Nigh” at my historically black seminary (one of the many, many...

December 13, 2015

The eighth night of Hanukkah — tonight and 84 years ago

The eighth night of Hanukkah, 84 years ago: 84 years ago, hate, vitriol and racist...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

Bubbles

We live in bubbles. Surrounded by people like us, most of us seldom encounter people...

September 2015

September 26, 2015

Popes and Protestants

It says something about the state of Christianity in the United States when the Pope,...

September 12, 2015

Signs of the time

I noticed the signs a few months ago. My then 15 month-old daughter and I...

August 2015

August 16, 2015

Civil Rights activist Jonathan Daniels

Aug. 20 marks the anniversary of the murder of white Civil Rights activist Jonathan Daniels....