Remembering Kyle Lake 20 Years Later

Remembering Kyle Lake 20 Years Later

When Kyle Lake waded into the waters of baptism, preparing our congregation to bear witness to the transforming power of Jesus in the life of one of our own, we didn’t know it would be a core moment in our lives, in his, and in the life of our church. He didn’t walk...
Word Games in Gaza

Word Games in Gaza

On May 29, 2022, I found myself in Jerusalem with a group of U.S. tourists, surrounded by thousands of young Israelis marching in the street with their country’s flag draped over their shoulders and flying in the air above the crowd. They were celebrating Jerusalem...
Kitchen Table Dog Whistles

Kitchen Table Dog Whistles

Few sources are more instructive about the modern Republican Party than the now-infamous interview Lee Atwater gave for Alexander Lamis’ 1988 book, The Two-Party South. Lamis didn’t name his source, but after Atwater died in 1991, The Nation magazine published the...