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

I was born, raised, and trained in a strong evangelical (Reformed) community. I spent the first 25 years of my adult life ministering formally from that community. Now, I do not call myself evangelical. That is not because I think the community was/is not well-intentioned and has everything wrong. Rather, I am convinced the community has aligned itself with modern Western culture more than it recognizes and is willing to admit, and that this alignment has produced some bad fr

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

As you may know, I listen regularly to white evangelical leaders in the hope that they will lead us through the times in which we find ourselves with truth and clarity. I would like to hear them show us how to live in a pluralistic society in which white evangelicals are not in the majority, as was the case in the first couple of centuries of the Christian church. I occasionally respond to podcasts, as I did to a podcast of the Rev. Dr. Al Mohler called The Briefing, a daily

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We humans tend to set boundaries between ourselves and others. Often that happens internally, as we judge and evaluate someone and place...

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