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August 11, 2016

6 Tips for Living with the Donald Trump in Your Family

Donald Trump can’t stop putting his foot in his mouth. He recently stoked fear among...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

How Jewish Wisdom Could Save the World

There are so many problems in the world. I mean, from Brexit to Trump to...

June 03, 2016

A Boy, a 450 Pound Gorilla, and a God Who Is Not In Control

Harambe was his name. Last Friday, he celebrated his 17th birthday. He was killed the...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Build a Wall! – Tearing Down Barriers at High School

Does the hostile political divide leave you feeling hopeless? I often feel that way, but...

April 2016

April 14, 2016

The Vessel: God Wears a Pink Dress

She sat in the emergency waiting room, hoping that the doctor would come with some...

March 2016

March 04, 2016

Big Donald, Little Marco, Lyin’ Ted, and My Dad – What’s the Alternative?

I’ve watched two of the 11 Republican presidential debates. For some reason, I decided to...

March 01, 2016

Donald Trump, Chris Rock, and 21st Century Racism

Will you condemn David Duke and say that you don’t want his vote or that...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

“Spotlight” on Children

Spotlight has deservedly won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Picture. It’s a movie that...

February 18, 2016

Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg – The Hope of Friendship

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia death last Saturday, I’d like to...

January 2016

January 18, 2016

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Justice, Love, and the New Jim Crow

In 1955, Martin Luther King found himself as the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott,...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

The Top 4 Myths about Syrian Refugees: Mike Huckabee and the Republican Debate

At Tuesday’s Presidential Debate, candidate Mike Huckabee had this to say about the Syrian refugee...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Star Wars, Racism, and Beyond White Fragility

It’s hard for me to wait for December 18! That’s the day that Star Wars:...

August 2015

August 24, 2015

American Christianity’s Great Scapegoat: Part 2

This is a guest post...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

My White Dad and Sandra Bland: On “Assaulting” a Police Officer

“I fixed the problem with your car,” the mechanic told my dad. “You can pick...

July 21, 2015

The Planned Parenthood Scandal: Beyond the Morality Police

Planned Parenthood was put on the defensive last week when a heavily edited video surfaced...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Rachel Dolezal, Matt Lauer, and the African American Experience

The Rachel Dolezal story getting more bizarre by the minute. Yesterday we discovered that while...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Buddhism and Christianity – On Loss, Grief, and Atonement

Life is not permanent. It’s frail. As much as we want to deny this truth,...

May 15, 2015

Drug Addiction, the Problem with Free Will, and God’s Unconditional Love

She sobbed as she sat across the table from me. As a community chaplain who...

May 08, 2015

How Not to Scapegoat Tom Brady: Reflections on Deflategate

I have so many reasons to hate Tom Brady. As I said after he beat...

April 2015

April 02, 2015

Why Christianity is Anti-Culture: Michael Hardin, Maundy Thursday, and the Eucharist

This post is in response to Michael Hardin’s 5-part series Thoughts on the Eucharist. Michael’s...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

Top 4 Ways to Criticize without Scapegoating

Criticism. It’s an ugly word. Just reading it there makes me cringe. And there’s so...

January 2015

January 14, 2015

4 Things You Need to Know about Terrorism and Religion

After my article on the terrorism in Paris last week, readers offered some thoughtful critiques...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Top 5 Ways to Be More Peaceful in 2015

At 35, I discovered years ago that New Year’s resolutions are a practice in failure....

November 2014

November 28, 2014

The Shooting Death of Michael Brown: A Necessary Evil or Just Plain Murder?

I want to discuss something fundamental, disturbing and largely invisible about human society that the...

November 14, 2014

Full Inclusion of LGBTQ: A Leading Evangelical Ethicist Changes His Mind

REPENT! Do shivers run down your spine when you hear that word? Well, there’s no...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus

This Thursday at 12:00 Eastern, we have the good pleasure of talking with Benjamin Corey...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Book Review: The Hope to “Reconcile” in a World of Conflict

From Ferguson to Ukraine to Syria to Iraq to local neighborhoods to family systems, many...

July 2014

July 02, 2014

Hobby Lobby, Rivalry and Choosing Grace

Though Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby has been argued and decided by the highest court in...

March 2014

March 19, 2014

The First Lie: Language’s Big Bang

“Once a person begins to desire what the model desires, he learns very quickly that...

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