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July 2019

July 27, 2019

Building God’s Kingdom or Destroying Ourselves? Sodom, The Lord’s Prayer, and The Crisis on Our Border

What do you think when you hear “Sodom and Gomorrah?” Progressive Christians rightly have long...

May 2018

May 07, 2018

Christianity, Buddhism, and the Spirituality of Joy

Jesus said that the whole point of his teachings was to give joy to his...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

Seven Stories – Chapter 4: Wrath to Compassion

Join Adam Ericksen and Lindsey Paris-Lopez as they discuss the shift of seeing God as...

April 20, 2018

Drinking the Cup of Poison: What Jesus Christ Superstar Gets Wrong About Gethsemane

Jesus Christ Superstar gets “Gethsemane” all wrong. I hate to say that, because I have...

March 2018

March 16, 2018

Walking the Walk of Peace: Our Children Shall Lead Us

To the students who walked out of class Wednesday, for your love, for your courage, for...

November 2017

November 02, 2017

Lessons In Leadership For, And From, My 8-Year-Old Daughter

Lindsey's daughter didn't want to be a leader, because she was afraid to make mistakes...

October 2017

October 24, 2017

What I Learned from My Muslim Uber Driver

I arrived at the airport after a long flight. After getting off the plane and...

October 06, 2017

Death Raining From The Sky

As a country music festival in Las Vegas culminates in a massacre, Lindsey Paris-Lopez says...

September 2017

September 06, 2017

How Do We Love Our Enemies and Those They Hurt at the Same Time?

The title question is not rhetorical, and I don’t have an easy answer. I am...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

A Dying Nation and World Implore Us: Stop the Dehumanization and Violence

Our nation and our world have reached a breaking point. Actually, that point is long...

May 2017

May 10, 2017

Beyond Certainty and Doubt: A Better Conversation on Climate Change

Climate change is one of the most controversial topics of our day. How can we...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Why Donald Trump Is Like the Grinch. And That’s a Good Thing.

Donald Trump might be growing a heart. In an Associate Press interview last weekend, Trump...

March 2017

March 01, 2017

Hijab for Lent

I am wearing hijab for Lent. Many personal, moral, and spiritual considerations led me to...

February 2017

February 20, 2017

“Love Your Enemies”: Expanding Our Hearts Through Compassion

“Love your enemies.” I’m reflecting on this, the hardest of Jesus’s commandments, as I grieve...

February 09, 2017

The Sermon on the Mount: A Theology of Resistance

Now is the time for a robust theology of resistance. As the violence that has...

January 2017

January 13, 2017

Less Red-baiting, More Peacemaking in the Age of Trump

In a world desperate for compassion, it pains me to see hope and opportunity for...

October 2016

October 19, 2016

Who is God? Answers from Christianity and Islam

This is the third installment of my series on Faith and Families. These weekly videos...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

Exercises in Empathy: Seeing Humanity Through the Flames

Milwaukee, the shooting of Sylville Smith, uprisings, a toxic, lethal system catching fire… words fail...

August 18, 2016

Gabby Douglas and a Better America

I love watching the Olympics. The world comes together for competition at its best. My...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

Let Me Introduce You To “Radical Islam”

Let me introduce you to "Radical Islam." Abdul Ghaffar Khan lived in India under the...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

Ahmed’s Clock: Islam, Mimetic Theory, and the Hope for a Better Future

Earlier in the week, Ahmed Mohamed proudly brought a clock he made to his school....

August 2015

August 17, 2015

ISIS’s Anti-Islamic Theology of Rape

My blood boiled with rage as I read the New York Times article “ISIS Enshrines...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

In Gratitude for Marcus Borg: On the Unholy God

Marcus Borg, a bestselling author and prominent Jesus scholar, died last week. I read the...

June 2014

June 07, 2014

The Amazing Spider-Man’s Subversive Empathy

Anthony Bartlett claims in his book Virtually Christian that, In movies, on the web, on...

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