Thick beats thin every time
(RNS) If we don't like Donald Trump's version of thick American nationalism and national loyalty, we must offer an equally thick but more compelling alternative.
View ArticleWhen you’re the one in the captain’s chair
It is easy to be the fire-breathing prophet when you are not the leader.
View ArticleOn the delusion of clergy access to the royal throne
The religious leader types who get access to the White House are mainly useful idiots.
View ArticleA columnist looks back and looks ahead
(RNS) "After 30 years attempting to advocate for a particular kind of American public life," writes David Gushee, "I feel a deep sense of powerlessness in relation to where our culture and politics are...
View ArticleTrust nobody, listen to everybody, follow Jesus
A columnist reboots for 2017 with three core principles for engaging public life.
View ArticleOn being strangers in a strange land
On being stripped of illusions about being at home in a good land called America.
View ArticleThree different ways to resist Trumpian nationalism
Three paradigms for resisting when nationalism is on the march. But will any be strong enough?
View ArticleWhat I said to my church today
A pastor speaks to his congregation on the new US refugee and immigration policy.
View ArticleDisinvited again: You, sir, are simply intolerable
(RNS) The author discovers he is so controversial an entire organization split over him.
View ArticleElections matter. So does resistance.
Resisting the tragic consequences of this election with the Matthew 25 Pledge.
View ArticleThe Christian social ethics project hits a wall
What is needed in America today goes far beyond public-policy tinkering.
View ArticleAn ethical analysis of the ‘New Sanctuary Movement’
Are advocates of the New Sanctuary Movement meaning to call for civil disobedience?
View ArticleIn search of honest, smart, independent people
A country can absorb a certain number of pure ideologues. But beware if they hold important positions of leadership.
View ArticleFrances FitzGerald on how evangelicals lost their way
(RNS) When religious folk get entangled with secular politicians in the political arena, the politicians always win.
View ArticleThe church’s surprising public contribution
On moral formation, crisis care, and congregations that transcend American tribalism.
View ArticleTelling the story of my departure from American evangelicalism
In which the author announces a new memoir and a 3rd edition of Changing Our Mind.
View ArticleManchester: What kind of person does this?
(RNS) Today, there are subcultures that train people to believe it is good and right to end one's life by murdering children.
View Article‘The most fantastic association of men imaginable’
What is activating and inflaming white supremacists right now?
View ArticleMy visit to the land of teenagers
What I learned from a week at the beach with my church's youth group.
View ArticleIt’s time to worry about leftist fundamentalism, too
Liberal politics also shows alarming tendencies in our polarized culture.
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