Our calling as Christians is not to preserve systems that contradict the Kingdom of Heaven, but to name them, resist them, and imagine something truer.

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.

We get to choose what side we’re on: the side of dehumanizing contempt or the side of dignity and mercy.

It takes courage to be who we are, and that courage found in community is the only thing that can defeat evil.

Martin Luther King taught us that we must become visualizers and dreamers of a better tomorrow, for if we can’t dream it, we can’t do it.