I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present withi….

If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, fa….

What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and ministered to them bot….

We all long for someone to tell us who we are. The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and t….

While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rat….

Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions are sac….

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God..

Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes, not villains, not avat….

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the prese….

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more t….

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I thi….

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist..

Ours is indeed a culture that tends to assign value to a woman based on her sex appeal rather than her character, and that’s something we must work t….

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance..

I’m ready to stop waging war and start washing feet..

What a comfort to know that God is a poet..

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church]..

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master..

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapo….

It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needles….

What each of us longs for the most is to be both fully known and fully loved. Miraculously, God feels the same way about us. God, too, wants to be fu….