As we start this school year, we know things will be different.

Words people use while expressing anger are easy targets to undermine the feelings they are expressing.

I don’t think I’m alone in saying that lately, I’ve been frustrated.

While other Christians and people of other faiths might see that they must change their practices in regard to race, white evangelicals still think of it in terms of what they believe.

A political assessment of modern Christianity reveals that followers of Jesus have varying conclusions about their relationship with the institution of government.

Many Christians who have walked closely with people who are same-sex attracted recognize a purity of love in many long-term, committed same-sex relationships in today’s modern society.

I’ve come to realize that what I was receiving was a collective response to years, decades, centuries of my co-workers’ and friends’ experiences of racist attitudes.

The question isn’t just simply about what is “safe” or “not safe.”

Both harbor simmering resentment at perceived slights and mistreatments. And both, it seems, would love to punish the other by various means.

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Lent and advent celebrations were totally absent in the first 30 years of my 75-year CRC experience. Now they abound. Why now and not then?

With us was a man, the brothers’ uncle, who for many years—and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds—had held on to hope that one day his nephews would join him in Canada.

How do we engage people with whom we have deep disagreements about important matters of religious convictions, political commitments, or moral lifestyles?

In the days and weeks after these losses, he waited. He waited for his church to reach out. He waited to hear from the elders. He waited for his pastors to visit.

Although some support programs are in place in the churches, we are called to reach out to the communities and develop initiatives that are available to everyone.

The Confederate flag serves as a portal through which non-Southern white people can project their own guilt of racial bias onto the Southerner.

We share the stories that don’t get heard or magnified anywhere else.

It felt as though every few hours I was hosting discussions between groups of students, or even the whole class, about the conflict that was occurring.

The phone was on speaker, so we all got to hear a bit of her friend’s attempts to console her.

No one should be surprised if they feel like their head is spinning at times; the disruption and disorientation is a real thing.

As much as I try to be fair and irenic, there are times when the truth is divisive. Truth divides between true and false, right and wrong. And politics do intersect, at certain points, with ethics.

There’s little, if any, scientific or psychological support to these theories. There are benefits and drawbacks to these self-discovery tools.