by Holly Berkley Fletcher | Jul 15, 2026 | Opinion
I just returned from Kenya, where I grew up as the child of evangelical missionaries, and Rwanda. While there, I had meetings with various Christians, including a group of pastors in western Kenya, a Kenyan civil society activist, a genocide survivor and a...
by Holly Berkley Fletcher | May 28, 2026 | Opinion
A major point of contention between different kinds of Christians and between Christians and secular humanists is the concept of original sin. Are human beings fundamentally good or depraved? On one end of the spectrum, hardcore Calvinists believe we are “worms,”...
by Holly Berkley Fletcher | May 27, 2026 | Satire
Editor’s Note: The following first appeared on our sister site, Bad Faith Media. The Organization of Biblical Women (OBW)—which includes such luminaries as Deborah, Esther, Junia, Mary Magdalene, and Beth Allison Barr—issued a statement this week on the proper,...
by Holly Berkley Fletcher | Apr 28, 2026 | Opinion
Growing up as a Southern Baptist in the 1980s and 1990s, I often heard gloating about the denomination’s growth, as well as that of other conservative, evangelical churches. Southern Baptists in particular assiduously tracked numbers of “decisions for Christ,”...
by Holly Berkley Fletcher | Mar 9, 2026 | Opinion
If it’s a Wednesday night, you’ll usually find me in the choir loft at my United Methodist Church, trying to decipher notes on a page of sheet music with my long-dormant, never-great sight-reading skills (new and improved with middle-aged eyes!). Fortunately,...
