If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the col….

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather th….

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impre….

And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding.

What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood o….

Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togeth….

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character..

I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That….

The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serve….

I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whats….