Critical Essay
How White Christians turned syncretism into an insult
Early-20th-century European and North American missionaries grew concerned about it—but never in their own churches.
Christian peacemaking and the role of forgiveness
Seeking justice is critical. Is it enough?
The good White Christian women of Nazi Germany
Despite what you’ve read, most of them didn’t resist.
Why I’ve come back around to substitutionary atonement
Sometimes sacrifice is an act of love.
The righteousness of the prude and the righteousness of the lover
Martin Luther went looking for God—and found Christ on the cross.
The theological work of antiracism needs to include lament
The Bible shows us what to do with our frustration, outrage, and complicity.
What Native American political systems can teach us about power and truth telling
My Choctaw ancestors understood the cost of lies.
Immigration law and the politics of disgust
How Pharaoh treated the Hebrews and how the US has treated my people
Billy Graham and Barack Obama each offered a pastoral voice in a time of tragedy
We need someone to speak to our moment, too.
What we lost when the funeral home replaced the home funeral
Death rituals used to happen in our houses. What if we brought them back?
Why do Christians protest?
The biblical foundation for a holy practice
It’s 1933, and Franklin Graham is German theologian Paul Althaus
A limited but troubling historical analogy
White supremacy is a script we’re given at birth
It’s written in our flesh and rehearsed throughout history.
The shape of liturgy when everything is changing
Even stones are constantly being transformed.
Virtual worship has become the people’s work
Discovering the limits—and possibilities—of common prayer via Zoom
In declaring whose lives matter, Martin Luther failed his own idolatry test
When it comes to racism, we’re failing it too.
Why there is no quest for the historical Mr. Rogers
Knowing the real Fred means seeing the unseen.
What it means to be a body in Hong Kong
The protests confront us with a difficult question.
The additional violence of George Floyd’s autopsy report
It’s getting harder to believe in the vindication of history.
Social distancing lessons from the anchoresses
It takes more than isolation to make us into contemplatives.