A Lenten meditation on cancel culture
Cancel culture eats away at all these things, throwing forgiveness out the window in the process. Cancel culture is reminiscent of those ancient statues of snakes in the process of eating themselves in a circle.
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COVID-19 and resilient women: New Bible research suggests hope on the rebound
As a working mom of one with another baby on the way, Women’s History Month has resonated differently for me this year.
What Mormons have right
At age fifteen, my parents divorced, I moved from my childhood home to an apartment with my father Every semblance of my former life was over Even my Methodist church, where I d gone since a baby, ...
The Church has solutions for post-Covid education
Education is in crisis. Teachers, students, parents all know it; anyone with even a tenuous connection to the education system knows it.
Which Cloud of Witnesses?
Editor Brian Kaylor reflects on the painting behind Georgia Governor Brian Kemp during the signing ceremony for a new law making it harder for people to exercise their right to vote.
Succession readiness: Why your succession plan matters now more than ever
One feeling that is uniting all pastors after 2020: exhaustion. Consequently, 2020 has caused a lot of pastors to consider stepping down years before they had planned.
Real Friends Don’t Take Over Your House
Donald Jump responds to a criticism of his legal filings by Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats. Jump criticizes the MBC’s effort to takeover Southwest Baptist University.
The psychology of ‘deconstruction’
One of the values that is prized in our culture, particularly among younger adults, is authenticity There is an exaltation of and an exultation in the authentic We all have seen the many coming-out
God Did Not Give Americans Guns. To Say Otherwise is Heresy.
Studies show that Christian Nationalist beliefs — that is, the merging of right-wing religious and civil ideologies — are the single greatest indicator of opposition to gun legislation reform.
Why Cherry-Picking Bible Passages Misses the Immigrant Experience in Ancient Rome
Selecting a few texts from Jesus’s teaching on welcoming the foreigner or the Apostle Paul’s teachings on the government does not provide the full story on the immigrant experience. In reality, their experience was politically and culturally complex.
