Yemen needs good neighbors
As Christians, we should care deeply about what’s happening in Yemen. Jesus shows us how. Yemen needs some good neighbors. As the people of Yemen experience deprivation and war, we can care, we can stop long enough to see, to learn, and to look for our opportunity to reach out and serve.
Love your enemies, the new requirement for citizenship
I don't believe that “love your enemies” is any longer a strategy for saints. I believe it is the new requirement for citizenship.
Declarations of freedom: Reflections on Juneteenth and the Fourth of July
For 246 years, we have been working on this experiment to form this more perfect union. We have not yet arrived. But if we can bring together celebrations of freedom like Juneteenth and the Fourth of July, recognizing the inalienable rights of all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or any other attribute by which we seek to divide, we will be closer to our goal.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of answers to complicated questions
A powerful reexamination of heart and soul is what led our forebears to create the United States of America. I am not proposing simplistic answers to complicated issues like mass shootings, but we must start somewhere. May we have the courage to faithfully reexamine the difficult things in order to move toward that more perfect union.
The real kind of ‘thoughts and prayers’
Properly understood, prayer is not just something that accompanies action but is embedded with it and is the most meaningful foundation for it.