Opinion
ICE Storm: Echoes of 1930s Germany
When a person is willing to use a lie to further their own interests, no matter the damage it causes to others and the nation, the hubris will take us to dark and devastating places.
Courage Over Compliance: Praying for More Shiphrah and Puah Energy
Like the midwives, we may not know how the story will unfold before us, but we can still have the courage to do the next faithful thing.
How a Buddhist Walk for Peace Gave Me Hope for the Church
A Buddhist “Walk for Peace” through South Carolina drew thousands across religious and political lines—and offered Christian communities a powerful lesson about peace and public witness.
A Song Someone is Dying to Hear: Did Amy Grant Just Join the Resistance?
The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm)” is Grant’s statement that justice and protest are not separate categories from the good news of Jesus.
No one has a Monopoly on God: Embracing Interfaith Wisdom
What I’ve discovered is learning from other traditions has not weakened my Christian faith; it has clarified it.
‘ICE, Get the Fk Out’: Prophetic Anger Is a Moral Obligation
For the sake of whatever sliver of genuine Christ-follower, or just decent human being, might be buried deep within the recesses of every ICE agent’s soul, we must continue to make the moral appeals.
Does Love Still Work? Shaky Faith, Parenthood, and Lament in Violent Times
When the annals of history look back and shine its spotlight on me, I want it known that I chose a side and acted accordingly.
The Raceless Gospel: Future- Casting in an Ass-Backward America
The Trump administration is actively trying to erase African American history and make the present insufferable for persons who are marginalized, criminalized, and dehumanizingly categorized as “illegal” and “alien.” So, I work for a future I can live into.
Action Trumps Intent: Does it Matter if the President is Racist?
He may very well not be a racist, but instead a political animal playing to the worst impulses of the U.S. psyche. Nevertheless, there is no denying he has done and said racist things.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Where do Queer People of Faith Fit?
We don’t have to accept that a life between a rock and a hard place is the best we can hope for when it comes to embracing both our queerness and our faith.
A Climate of Fear and Distrust: Responding to Escalating ICE Raids in America
After a deadly ICE encounter in Minneapolis, escalating immigration raids are spreading fear and unrest across U.S. cities.
The Week The United States Fell
The time has come for common-sense citizens who love their country and recognize blatant injustice to engage in the political process.
From Saving Armenian Orphans to Funding Their Persecutors?
How can the United States credibly speak about protecting Christians in Nigeria, Syria or Iraq if it overlooks the ethnic cleansing of Armenian Christians for the sake of expediency?
How Politics Replaced Religion in the American Soul
This is not a call to withdraw. It’s a call to return to empathy, to community, to the belief that democracy depends on our ability to recognize the dignity of those with whom we disagree.
Telling the Truth During National Poverty Awareness Month
If we are to address poverty in America, then we must also address racism, as these issues are deeply intertwined.
A Monumental Spectacle and a Forgotten History
Heartbreakingly, the ideology of Manifest Destiny destroyed countless precious lives. We should never forget.
The Epiphany Season: By Another Road
The revelation at the heart of Epiphany is certainly the revealing of the messiah to the Gentiles and to the whole world. But it is also the revealing to the wise men of Herod’s true plans and character.
Evangelicals No Longer Support Trump. It’s Worse: They Ignore Him.
Evangelicals may no longer loudly support Donald Trump, but their silence carries its own danger. A theological critique of power, omission, and the gospel.
The Cost of Equivocation: Why We Avoid Clarity
Many people react to clarity as if it’s an attack—not because the truth is inherently harmful, but because they’ve never learned how to receive it without collapsing or retaliating.
People over Problems: Breaking the Cycle of Sexual Violence
We either perpetuate brokenness or we take hold of our power to heal and bless.
Epiphany and January 6th Tell Two Stories. Only One Leads Us Toward Justice
Epiphany offers another way: a story not of domination, but of defiance; not of empire, but of liberation.
Epiphany’s Coup d’État
How then are we to live in between appearance and conclusion, between the given and the promised, between Earth’s misery and Heaven’s revelry?
The Raceless Gospel: Writing for a World Yet to Be
It’s something like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s mountaintop experience. All I needed was a peek. Knowing that a kin-dom exists in another space and time was enough to get me going in the direction of what has become The Raceless Gospel Initiative.
Post-Colonial Faith: Searching for the Roots of Religious Abuse
A gospel that directly preaches hope for the outcast and downtrodden is dangerous for someone bent on control.
Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy and The Blasphemy of American Exceptionalism
I had hoped we would shed the jingoism of gunboat diplomacy. I really shouldn’t be surprised that Trump has revitalized it with a vengeance.
Elevating Good Faith in 2026
As we enter 2026, Good Faith Media will seek to elevate good faith to another level.
Good Faith Media’s Top Stories in 2025
A year-in-review from Good Faith Media on 2025’s defining stories—politics, immigration, Israel-Gaza, LGBTQ+ rights, free speech, and glimmers of hope.
GFM’s Favorite Television and Film from 2025
Good Faith Media staff and contributors share the movies and TV shows that defined 2025, from prestige dramas and horror to comedies centered on justice, culture, and community.
GFM’s Favorite Books from 2025
Good Faith Media writers share the books that shaped their reading in 2025, from memoir and history to theology, justice, and reimagined biblical storytelling.
GFM’s Favorite Music of 2025
Staff writers at Good Faith Media share the new music of 2025 that moved them most—from Tyler Childers and Brandi Carlile to Rosalía, Clipse, and more.