by Randall Balmer | Dec 19, 2025 | Opinion
Stephen Colbert may be our most important theologian. In accepting the Ripple of Hope Award on December 5 from the Robert and Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, Colbert invoked the image of Robert Kennedy breaking bread with Cesar Chavez on the day Chavez ended his...
by Donald E. Williams | Dec 13, 2025 | Opinion
Evil has plagued humankind since the dawn of time. Ever since the fall of humanity in Eden’s paradise, we have wrestled with the dark inclinations of the soul—the propensity to sin and to do harm to others. Evil is the unfortunate result of the corrupted “image of...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Dec 3, 2025 | Opinion
When I saw the word “Advent” as a child, my heart instinctively read “adventure.” The Advent season has always stirred in me a sense of anticipation, as though something wondrous, transformative, and deeply holy is just beyond the horizon. As a child, I thought it was...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Sep 30, 2025 | Opinion
My wife and I recently attended an event in Manassas, Virginia, to fulfill the birthday present I had given her the previous month. The gift was tickets to hear Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro discuss their new book, The Court of the Dead: A Nico DiAngelo Story. It’s the...
by Erin Parks | Aug 1, 2025 | Opinion
As I have watched the news, written, prayed and moved about my life during this summer in which tyrants and evil seem to be “getting their way,” my first instinct is to rely on my heavily pragmatic Protestant upbringing. What can I do when the world is burning? I turn...
