Making mistakes and experiencing “happy accidents” has been a significant part of my time in the kitchen and in front of the stove. My experimenting often welcomes the unexpected and encourages me to let go of the regimented style or belief that things need to happen a certain way. My faith is similar to that as well.

There are plenty of voices speaking to young men about how they should be men in the world, and yet progressive Christianity has had little to say to or about men.

Each Friday in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.

It is my prayer that Juneteenth 2025 will move us to tell the whole truth about slavery, not just the sanitized version. I pray that we will be compelled to protect truth in our schools, in our churches, in our museums, and in our memories. And I pray we will have the courage to confront those who would rather comfort the powerful than confront the past.

It is deeply concerning when the redemptive message of Jesus Christ is hindered by spiritual rigidity; when hearts grow unyielding and minds become closed to transformation. Inflexible ideas, doctrinal beliefs, socially conditioned prejudices, and religious institutions often evidence the calcification of the tissue of the body of Christ in the world.