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In the story, God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah not because of homosexuality, but because of the way those towns treated people migrating from one place to another. The story says God destroyed the cities because they refused to show hospitality to vulnerable strangers who were staying in their town. Can you see any relevance in…
Jesus is the Son of God. This is not merely a pious religious statement. This is about a theological and political worldview. In the ancient Roman world, the Son of God was the emperor who ruled the world through violence, coercion, and death. But according to the Gospels, Jesus is the true Son of God…
How would the world be different if Christians went around saying, “God doesn’t judge you or condemn you for being transgender. God delights in you.”? What if we proclaimed that God doesn’t condemn anyone for being LGBTQ or heterosexual or poor or rich or black or brown or white or cisgender or transgender or from…
“I really wish that in this country, as wealthy as the United State is, that I did not have to be having this conversation about houselessness. I wish it did not exist. But it does.” And we can do something about it. Rich Swift and Vahid Brown talk with us about the misconceptions of houselessness and what we can do to help…
Jesus’ prayer is intentionally circular because he wants to make sure that we understand it. God is not out to get us by punishing us or condemning us. God is out to love us. All of us. The unity that Jesus prays for is a unity that’s based on sharing God’s glory with one another…
Religions sometimes make Ultimate Truth claims. What happens when two religions make these claims? We fall into conflict and rivalry over who is right about the Truth. But what if that misses the whole point? For Jesus, the point wasn’t about being right. The point was much bigger than that. It was about love.
And here’s the big secret that our culture doesn’t tell about Julia Ward Howe’s life: After her eyes saw the horrors of war, she became a radical pacifist and fought for an end to all war. And she did so by calling for a national day dedicated to mothers. Julia Ward Howe wanted Mother’s Day…