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Fantasy and reality after Roe
One can imagine an anti-abortion politics that started with economic solidarity or righteous fury at male sexual license. But the thought experiment only demonstrates its own absurdity.
Feeling US history
School districts and legislatures aren’t just challenging textbooks and curricula. They’re challenging feelings.
The spirituality of slow fashion
I have found joy reusing, recycling, and repairing clothing.
Embracing Marc Chagall’s refugee Christ
The painter’s Exodus calls to mind the Passover, the Shoah, Ukraine, and the southern border.
Title 42’s disastrous—and illegal—legacy at the southern border
The Biden administration has reversed Trump’s rhetoric around migrants but not all of his policies.
This is my broken body
When illness took over my life, I developed a new understanding of the Eucharist.
Was my father right to embrace predestination?
If we take the doctrine seriously, then we dare not draw the circle of salvation along religious lines. Or any lines at all.
The old “distraction” slur against advocates for justice
This line of attack goes back to the White Christian opponents of the 19th-century abolition movement.
The bones of Jacques Marquette
The Jesuit explorer was a friend to Native Americans. At last, he’s going home.
Death’s vision
As my father was dying, I saw God’s radiant face more clearly.
The unexpected gift of missional friendship
I was a United Methodist pastor. He was a campus minister with Cru.
Driving my trans student to Planned Parenthood
My queer IQ was low. I decided to show up anyway.
The mass shooting in Buffalo was an attack on the image of God
And it was enabled by social structures of permission.
The most important American Old Testament scholar of the last century is Norman Gottwald
In the life of early Israel, Gottwald found a God of economic justice.
Under Elon Musk’s authority
Doing church on social media is not like standing in the public square. It’s more like putting ourselves under a form of sovereignty.
Discovering our voices together after my wife’s stroke
With her own voice changed by the stroke, she wanted to hear the Bible spoken aloud by her husband.
Ambition used to be a vice
Now we tend to see it as a virtue—at least for some people.
The book of Job is a parody
Sometimes I picture its author looking down at us and shaking his head.
How should Asian American Christians respond to anti-Asian racism?
Be like water: clear, humble, persistent, and restorative.
QAnon moms
The infiltration of online parenting spaces began as a slow burn. During the pandemic, it’s picked up speed.