Sexless Marriage: Causes and Strategies for Repair

Sexless Marriage: Causes and Strategies for Repair

Note: This essay involves candid discussion of sexuality, utilizing frank descriptions of painful experiences as well as quotes that include sexual terminology. A woman angrily reported to me, “My husband and I have not had sex in eight years. He told me he had lost...
MLK Day is Not a Time for Comfort

MLK Day is Not a Time for Comfort

I vividly remember the exact moment. I was in seminary, having fled my native South to New York City. I was embarrassed at being a Baptist, at being a white Southerner, and not entirely sure if I was a believer. But the “God question” wouldn’t go away. A mighty...
ICE Storm: Echoes of 1930s Germany

ICE Storm: Echoes of 1930s Germany

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents move through Minneapolis neighborhoods, knocking on doors and demanding people prove their citizenship, echoes of 1930s Germany (and the Jim Crow South) can be heard with every knock and forced entry. When Adolf...