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September 2015

September 21, 2015

I’m Christian, But I’m Not. . .

As a Presbyterian minister and a progressive Christian ethicist, when the young people on the...

September 15, 2015

What’s a White Christian to Do? Racism, White Privilege, and Stepping Up

White privilege and racism will not go away until we begin to address these problems...

September 02, 2015

Celebrating the Moral Courage of Women Who Have Abortions

During this media blitz highlighting the Catholic Church’s generosity of absolving women of their “sin...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Bernie Sanders Is Riding the Third Rail

By standing up for socialism and ideas that have been marked as unpopular and unwinnable,...

August 27, 2015

Does it matter if my ancestors owned slaves?

In some ways, it doesn’t matter if my ancestors owned slaves. After all, my privilege...

August 25, 2015

I Really Hope My Daughter Has Good Sex

Most teens feel sexual desire. The question they need to grapple with is what do...

August 14, 2015

What Christian Feminism Can Teach Us About Dealing with Our Racist Past

In the midst of a country where black lives appear expendable and some white people...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Why My Heart Breaks When Churches “Leave” the PCUSA

My heart broke a little as I rode my bike past that church. It broke...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Celebrating Birth Control

Women's capacity to control their fertility is a moral good. While much of the opposition...

May 2015

May 08, 2015

Why Do Christians Fight Over the Bible?

Last week I wrote a blog post about the Supreme Court’s deliberations regarding marriage equality....

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Biblical Marriage is Not What You Think

God protect us from Biblical sexual ethics, Biblical marriages, and Biblical literalists! The truth of...