Opinion
The Race for AI Leads to a Brick Wall
The time is now for people of good faith to demand that tech companies and politicians tap the brakes on AI.
No Rainbow: AI, Creative Destruction, and the Theology Silicon Valley Forgot
We are being asked to trust innovation without receiving any corresponding covenant from those who profit most from it.
Faithful Pride | Isn’t Pride a Sin?
There are many contexts in our lives where pride is considered a good thing, perhaps even virtuous.
The Unexpected Grace of American Football in France
Unexpectedly, some of the things that have helped me hold onto both community and hope here, in France, have been unmistakably American.
A Deficit of Curiosity
The person who stops learning, stops being curious, and stops exploring their world ultimately settles for less.
Telling the Truth | The World Tried to Colonize My Mind
The world tried to colonize my mind so thoroughly that feeling trapped meant feeling voiceless inside my own body.
The Politics of White-Body Supremacy: On White Ignorance
Systemic racism is often reinforced through a structural, learned ignorance that allows dominant groups to misunderstand the world they inhabit.
U.S. Adults Have Mixed Views of AI, Pew Study Finds
Views on the negative impacts of AI are split along generational lines, with younger survey participants being more leery of its impact than older ones.
Courage Beyond Fear
May you have the ear to hear the next act that will be required, not without fear, but with courage beyond fear.
Longing for the Summer of ‘78
he more I reflect on the summer of 1978, and honestly, all of my childhood summers, the more I long for the simplicity and innocence of it all.
Nate Bargatze Forfeits the Benefits of Neutrality
Since everything Trump does is transactional, there is no room for the middle, apolitical environment that folks like Bargatze pine for.
Juneteenth Invites Us to See Color
White people have not been trained to think complexly about race in school, in mainstream discourse, or in social institutions.
Hospicing Whiteness: Why Reform is not Enough
There is a particular kind of death that cannot be rushed, bargained with, or reformed into something livable.
Abandoning Missionary Zeal for Transformational Travel
Travelers learn that fear is for people who don’t get out much, that we’re all equally lovable children of God, and by traveling, we get to know the family.
‘Disclosure Day’: An Even Closer Encounter
The disclosure at the heart of Disclosure Day may not be the disclosing of secrets at all.
Women’s Ordination and the Future of the Church
The SBC remains the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, so its decisions affect many Christians and impact the lives of women in the church.
When “Enough” Disappears: Elon Musk, Trillionaire Wealth, and a World Far From the Kin-dom of God
“Enough” is what makes community possible. It is what reminds people that abundance is meant to be shared.
A Reading List for a Summer of Somebodiness
“I am somebody” is a natural response to attempts to minimize one’s “me-ness,” to deny one’s aliveness through macro and microaggressions and inflictions of systematic pain and suffering.
From Tokens to Community: How the Anniversary of My Ordination Sparked a Movement
In any other place we’d be tokens. Here we’re community.
RIP, SBC: The Cannibalistic Instincts of the Southern Baptist Convention
When rigid theological or ideological loyalty overwhelms diversity of opinion, large groups succumb to the slippery slope of populism.
Sisters, Take Thou Authority! A United Methodist Response to Misogyny in the SBC and TPUSA
Women’s ordination was a fight that had to be won. It was not intuitive to our predecessor denominations that women should be ordained.
Diner Diaries | Kyle Caudle
Justin Cox sits down with singer-songwriter Kyle Caudle to discuss music, Appalachia, and the enduring power of diners.
Dirt Under the Fingernails of Philosophy
The deeper story is that a gap had been opening for years between the life I was living and the life I was meant to live.
Ours Will Not Be The Fate of Icarus
At times, it seems that some within the current political climate would like many African American professionals to fall from positions of influence and achievement for daring to rise too high.
Queer Joy as Resistance On Display at 2026 Tony Awards
Joy is the fuel of our faith.
Sidewalk Solidarity and the Welcome of God
If confronting and resisting our nation’s current campaign of cruelty against refugees, asylum seekers, migrating families and immigrants is too political for the church, then the Bible is too political for the church.
The Politics of White-Body Supremacy: On White Silence
White-body supremacy demands silence. Not to be confused with a genuine fear of saying the wrong thing, a lack of knowledge, or the desire to avoid social conflict, this silence extracts all conceivable benefits towards whiteness.
Mormonism Left Off Hegseth’s Christian List, and Senator Mike Lee Isn’t Happy
Given a choice between voting for a Black man or a cult member, Christian conservatives chose neither.
The Twin Cities: After Metro Surge
Good Faith Media returned to Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, this week to follow up on stories we covered during Operation Metro Surge last winter.
World Environment Day is a Call to Action
One of the most pressing justice issues of our time is climate change.