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Sightings and Sorrows of Religion
While religion should motivate efforts to alleviate hatred and dehumanization, it often finds itself wrapped up in these social evils....
June 22, 2023
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Human Goods, Environmental Evils
The same mastery of nature (human and nonhuman) that has made civilization possible now imperils us....
June 16, 2022
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The Revolutionary Joy of Desmond Tutu
There is a danger in softening Tutu’s legacy, but we make the same mistake in the opposite direction if we forget his contagious, all-embracing joy....
January 6, 2022
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On Prophetic Rage
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a prophetic rage that rejected the status quo and strove for a just and loving community: we should too....
October 21, 2021
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Thoreau's Ethics of Delight
Walden's religious quest for justice in a life of simple pleasures...
March 11, 2021
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Georgia's Senate Elections and the Life of the Black Church
Senator-elect Warnock's victory shows that the institution that led the fight for civil rights has just as much vitality as ever...
January 7, 2021
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Catholicism and its Disconnects
The most recent Papal encyclical highlights longstanding fault lines in contemporary Catholicism...
November 16, 2020
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Labor Sunday
How American clergy in the 1920s turned from solidarity with workers to the mythology of the Good Christian Businessman...
September 7, 2020
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I Survived a Short Term Mission Trip to Honduras! -- Brian Howell
This past summer, as I waited for my plane in Tegucigalpa, I browsed one of the airport’s many gift shops looking for something for my 14-year-old son and found, among the soccer jerseys and dried toads, a bright orange T-shirt emblazoned with a colo...