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February 2021

February 10, 2021

We Need to Be Honest When We Talk about Abortion

Our entire conversation about abortion and life ethics needs to change from a culture-war melee...

August 2020

August 03, 2020

Why Supremacy Never Delivers Freedom: Recovering the True Meaning of the Cross

The arc of history will indeed bend again towards justice if Christians everywhere can in...

February 2020

February 01, 2020

Yes, This Is Who We Are: The United States and Our History of Injustice

This is who we are. We came to this continent, stole it from those who...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

It is Time For Us To Decide: What is Christianity Going to Mean?

Is Christianity a religion of empire and nationalism, of “might makes right,” of walls and...

April 2019

April 05, 2019

No, the Phrase “Church Militant” Does Not Justify Militarism

The Gospel is clear about Jesus’ call to reject violence. We are admonished to love...

July 2018

July 17, 2018

In Our Outrage Over Trump and Putin, Don’t Forget Immigrant Families

Let’s not forget that the reason we decided to resist Trump in the first place...

January 2018

January 20, 2018

My Statement on the 2018 March for Life

I stand for a movement that seeks to protect all life, but also recognizes the...

July 2017

July 20, 2017

A Defense of Game of Thrones

Admitting that I am a fan of the hugest TV hit series of the moment...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

When the Right Supports the Burning of the Flag

But there are some things no power, state or federal, has a right to decree.

April 2017

April 13, 2017

this is not the God of vengeance

His disciples must really not have been paying attention to half his teachings, if they...

November 2016

November 14, 2016

racism and anti-semitism have no place in a genuine pro-life ethos

But it doesn't have to be Nazi Germany for Jews and other minorities to be...

November 10, 2016

why I don’t toe the line: pacifism and the hypocrisy of “religious liberty” rhetoric

Where the hell was the defense of religious liberty for my Church of Christ forbears...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

the hijab at new york fashion week provides a curious exercise in intersectional thinking

fashion has always been about ideology, and the ideology has almost always been sexist: whether...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

anthems, pledges, and religious liberty: why I sit with kaepernick

In fact, the realm of athletics has been an important space for the exposing of...

August 15, 2016

sexism in the olympics? you shouldn’t be surprised

Professional and social media have been inundated with stories about sexism in the...

August 03, 2016

I wrote a piece about baby-hating, and this is what I learned

If one can not reject hatred of persons, if one can not embrace a willingness...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

turning to religion in times of violence: why we pray

We all need to take seriously the challenge posed to our beliefs, by history. I...

July 08, 2016

rejecting the glamour of evil: a pledge of non-violence

In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

July 01, 2016

war, abortion, and liberty: reconsidering our obsession with independence (and firing up the grill)

One of my favorite passages in The Lord of the Rings is when Aragorn asks...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

this attack on democrats for life indicates that, for some, party loyalty takes precedence over life ethics

One of the first uses of "pro-life" to denote opposition to abortion was in 1971,...

June 07, 2016

dear christians defending rapists: your prejudice is showing

Our existing prison systems do nothing to eradicate rape mentality: they only shift the focus,...

June 05, 2016

the bombing of hiroshima, the case of jane laut, and our immoral preferential option for the powerful

Or is it that we who laud death-dealing violence as an aspect of manliness, the...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

we need a theology of the body broken and violated

Because, as soon as I draw on the language that beautifies, I am pretending that...

March 2016

March 10, 2016

suspect teleologies and the depersonalization of men

And why are we so accepting of the idea that men are reducible to tools...