‘By Any Means’: Does God Need a Hitman?

‘By Any Means’: Does God Need a Hitman?

  When your dad is an American history teacher, your class meets around the clock. My dad both lived through and taught American history.  He was a child of the civil rights era and educated my brother and me around coffee tables and turntables as he taught the...
The Bold American Resistance to Tyranny

The Bold American Resistance to Tyranny

If the people of Minneapolis are indicative of a growing resistance to ICE against an emerging police state, Americans will not lose their democracy to the dreams of a would-be authoritarian tsar in the White House. Across the country, Americans are organizing an...
MLK Day is Not a Time for Comfort

MLK Day is Not a Time for Comfort

I vividly remember the exact moment. I was in seminary, having fled my native South to New York City. I was embarrassed at being a Baptist, at being a white Southerner, and not entirely sure if I was a believer. But the “God question” wouldn’t go away. A mighty...