This coming Friday, August 28, I will be with – hopefully – thousands of others on the Mall in Washington, D.C., marching with the “Defend the Vote” protest. It is exactly the 63rd anniversary of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We march to defend the vote, because voting rights are under attack and the protections generations fought, bled, and died for are being weakened. We march to defend civil rights, because attacks on diversity

A couple of days ago, I wrote to the Rev. Dr. Albert Mohler, of the podcast The Briefing, about his comments regarding the Trump decoy flight out of Turkey last month and the story that broke this week of the resignation of Dr. Jason Arday, professor at Cambridge University in England. Arday resigned due to investigations into alleged serious plagiarism, academic qualifications, and honorary appointments. There were also serious questions about the truth of things he had said

I am reading a book called The Gospel According to Eve (2019) by the Rev. Dr. Amanda Benckhuysen (what a great Dutch name!). The book...

I am reading a book by Liz Charlotte Grant called Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis after Losing Faith in the Bible . “Braiding...

Bruce [i] Onobrakpeya (b. 1936) is a celebrated Nigerian painter and printmaker. Onobrakpeya pioneered bronzed lino relief and metal...

In light of the – not optimistic – scenarios that lie before us, those who do not sink into despair want a Plan. What are we going to do?...

This book is called “Life After Doom”. But what does “doom” mean? Its roots lie in the medieval concept of “law” and “justice”. A...

At the end of the last chapter we concluded that we would need some help removing our rose-colored glasses that only allow us to see...

On January 9 the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) through their North American church planting arm (Mission to North America) posted...

On this New Year's Day, 2025, a reminder from The Many that we are here to love. Everything and everyone. Drawing on indie pop and gospel...

"Reverse racism" is a term used by the white, majority culture to describe what is felt as discrimination against them, usually in the...

Nikki Giovanni, poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator, died this week at age 81. She had a long and illustrious writing,...

Brian McLaren has been thinking and writing about the Christian faith and how the faith as we have received it needs to change for many...

If you’ve been following recent news you will know that Syria has been liberated from the regime of Bashar Al-Assad, who ruled Syria in a...

Today is Native American Heritage Day, at (almost) the end of Native American Heritage Month. We do not (yet) do it well enough, but we...

“We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet,...

One of the arguments made to counter the racism evident in Donald Trump’s actions, attitudes and words is that a higher percentage of...

This slogan came often from the lips of Donald Trump during his campaign for president in 2024. His MAGA crowd loved it: they cheered...