by Sean Palmer | Jan 29, 2026 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a series of columns on faith and film from Sean Palmer, leading up to the Oscars ceremony on March 15. With shaking hands and jittering feet, she sat there, worried. Like every other potential victor, she harbored hope but...
by Mary Dyer | Jan 29, 2026 | Opinion
January 7 began as a normal day for Renee Good. She packed her six-year-old son into the back seat, along with his lunch and their large dog, and drove him to school. As she drove home, she noticed out of the corner of her eye a group of huddled ICE agents. She...
by Caleb Lines | Jan 28, 2026 | Opinion
At the Center for Progressive Christianity, we often say that our core values aren’t meant to function as gatekeeping tools. They aren’t lines in the sand drawn to keep people out. Instead, they are guiding commitments—ways of naming what we are striving to embody as...
by James Ellis III | Jan 28, 2026 | Opinion
As I was leaving an urban church I pastored, the congregation asked me to share things they should improve for whoever came after me. I recited a line from the title track of Prince’s iconic 1984 album and film Purple Rain: “You say you want a leader, but you can’t...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Jan 27, 2026 | Opinion
I’ve never been a violent person. Even so, I am intimately familiar with the language of violence. I was introduced to it as a teenager in the early 2000s in my charismatic evangelical youth group. Church leaders encouraged us to go everywhere with our “sword” so we...
by Colin Harris | Jan 27, 2026 | Opinion
Those of us who have been around the track more than a few times are familiar with the feeling that comes in response to certain patterns of experience: “I think I’ve seen this movie before.” More than 60 years ago, in the decade-long process of nonviolent...
