by Rebecca M. David Hensley | Jun 25, 2025 | Opinion
Last weekend, Israel bombed Iran in an unprovoked attack. Before we could wrap our minds around what that might mean for global relations in the region, we learned that Minnesota state Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered in what many officials...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | May 19, 2025 | Opinion
In season six, episode seven of Hulu’s rendition of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian nightmare “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the main character experiences a gut-check moment. June, the once-enslaved handmaid turned fugitive refugee, has just been confronted with a horrific...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | May 2, 2025 | Opinion
Earlier this week, the United Methodist Church’s (UMC) Judicial Council ruled that within local UMC churches, the pastor has sole discretion in deciding whether to preside at same-gender weddings. But wait, didn’t that already happen? One year ago today, the General...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | Apr 3, 2025 | Opinion
A year and a half ago, I was preparing to travel to Palestine and Israel with fellow students and scholars. As a Christian pastor and theologian, I had long wanted to visit the “Holy Land.” However, this opportunity had never been offered through church-affiliated...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | Mar 4, 2025 | Opinion
In 2005, Jim Wallis, founder and (then) editor of Sojourners magazine and self-identified evangelical, published God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. Arguing for a “consistent ethic of life,” Wallis chided the political and...
