Opinion
Digging Holes and Chasing Tumbleweeds: Protecting Mother Earth and Sacred Grounds
Mother Earth is a gift from our Creator, a Creator who entrusted us to care for her. Therefore, let’s come together for the purpose of protecting the only resource we humans have before it’s too late.
JD Vance, Zohran Mamdani, and How We Talk About Religion
From gym-bleacher debates to national politics, exploring why Americans speak different languages when we talk about religion.
Honoring Truth, Restoring Justice: Native American Heritage Month Moves Us to Action
Grace Ji-Sun Kim reflects on racism and Native American Heritage Month, urging truth, justice and solidarity with Indigenous peoples.
Raise the Bar: A Queer Pastor’s Response to SCOTUS and Marriage Equality
You shouldn’t have to praise people for choosing not to do a harmful thing. Doing no harm should be the baseline assumption for how society works.
Redefining Power: Lessons from the Mahābhārata and the Bible
When we refuse to listen to the voices at the edge and the ones who question, we become like the fallen brothers at the lake: powerful perhaps, but spiritually and politically parched.
Faith in Action: Four Components of Congregations Caring for their Communities
If the government no longer feeds and cares for those experiencing poverty, who will?
Building Communities of Resilience
If churches are going to be part of “the resistance,” it is imperative that we also find ways to be part of “the resilience.”
People of Good Faith | Carl Johnson
We could build resilient communities of faith through trust, not conflict. We could show our compassion through consistent giving and let our efforts birth new disciples for Jesus.
Historic Federal Government Shutdown Highlights the Country’s History of Labor Exploitation and Wealth Inequality
While financial hardship remains a widespread issue for many Americans, members of Congress can afford to take a paid vacation on their dime. The federal government has been shut down since October 1, but they’ve got time. What’s a missed paycheck or two for government workers?
Good News by the Dozen
A small act of sharing becomes a lesson in neighborly love.
Report Finds North Carolina Leading the Way for Baptist Women in Ministry
Baptist Women in Ministry’s 20th “State of Women in Baptist Life” report highlights progress, persistent challenges, and where women in ministry thrive.
Higher Education Under Siege: An Old Tactic for a New Era
If the rising tide of authoritarianism and attacks on higher education is ever to subside, then people of good faith need to rise up and denounce the rhetoric of politicians, preachers and pundits like Governor Abbott.
Partisan Divide Shapes Views on U.S. Progress Against Illegal Drugs
A new Gallup survey shows rising confidence in the nation’s fight against illegal drugs, driven largely by Republicans, even as actual data tell a more complex story.
KPop Demon Hunters: A 21st Century Redemption Story
“KPop Demon Hunters” is more than an animated film with great storytelling and catchy pop songs. It explores profound questions in a society grappling with nihilism and longing for redemption from the sins that plague us.
Rejecting Jesus
Only a Jesus from the underside of history, then and now, can save.
Belief Behind the Book | Amelia Fulbright’s ‘The Water and the Blood, The Blood and the Water’
Rather than a midlife crisis, Fulbright’s memoir is a midlife reckoning with identity through the lenses of faith, gender and race.
A Debt to Our Veterans
Military service—whatever the setting—changes a person. As a nation, we must never take that lightly.
Our Jesuit Alma Mater is Union-Busting. That’s Blasphemy.
Former LMU students call on their Jesuit alma mater to honor its Catholic values by ending union-busting and bargaining in good faith.
“If You See Someone Stealing Food, No, You Didn’t”
Due to an ongoing federal shutdown, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits ended on November 1. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said funding for the program has run out, prompting a reminder. “If you see someone stealing food, no, you didn’t.”
Perryman Marks 30 Years of Baylor Interdisciplinary Core with Address on Academic Freedom
At Baylor’s Homecoming, BIC alum and Democracy Forward CEO Skye Perryman delivered an address on academic freedom—linking modern threats to historic struggles, from Socrates to Baylor’s own controversies.
Transphobia Hurts Everyone
If you can successfully use cisgender boys as a political pawn to strike fear into the hearts of your supporters, then you know you are failing these boys by raising them to be men that women need to fear.
“If You See Someone Stealing Food, No, You Didn’t”
Due to an ongoing federal shutdown, SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits ended on November 1. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said funding for the program has run out, prompting a reminder. “If you see someone stealing food, no, you didn’t.”
Halloween and Hallowing: The Sacred Work of Remembering
I now believe there is no observance in the liturgical year in greater need of recovery than All Saints Day.
Fast Food Life and the Hunger for Something Real
Sometimes I still fall back into old habits and grab something quick when I’m tired or busy. But I can’t go back to not noticing.
Remembering Kyle Lake 20 Years Later
As we approach this week, may we love God, embrace beauty, and live life to the fullest.
Who Is Your Enemy?: ‘Wakanda Forever’ Imitates Life
We may not have vibranium to lose, but we have paychecks, groceries, homes, and livelihoods to lose, and people are losing them left and right.
Middle Ground or Moral Evasion?
Some positions, policies and practices are objectively more violent than others.
After the Dust Settles: The Work of Rebuilding Belief
Reconstruction means finding or forming spaces where mutual care replaces mutual judgment.
Once Upon a Morel Prize
When the pig president of Ameri trades self-control for slop, even the finest morels can’t save him from losing his way.
Your Church Food Pantry Isn’t Enough: In Defense of Federal Programs
No ‘Total Money Makeover’ program can pull someone out of poverty in a world that doesn’t require employers to pay living wages.