by James L. Evans | Aug 20, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
For decades, pollsters and pundits have tracked a steady decline among mainline Christian churches— Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Anglican, Lutheran and Methodist. In recent years, even America’s largest Protestant denomination— the Southern Baptist Convention— has seen...
by Colin Harris | Sep 14, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
I don’t remember when I first encountered Jonathan Edwards’ famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” But I do remember the effect of its imagery as a pointer to the kind of critical urgency that often-accompanied appeals to come to Jesus to avoid the...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Apr 5, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
What do you do when the hymns we sing reinforce a theology which is, and continues to be, detrimental to the marginalized, those who liberationist theologian Jon Sobrino called “the Crucified People”? “Would you be free from the burden of sin? There’s power in the...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 14, 2022 | Opinion
I asked us to get in touch with our feelings last week. As Christian believers, it is imperative that we identify with suffering — not only during the season of Lent and not only with Christ’s pains but also the world’s groaning. If not, then I’ve got a sinking...
by Starlette Thomas | Dec 27, 2021 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
“The sky is falling!” Plan for when worst comes to worst. The world has been ending for nearly my entire life. What keeps me from living as if my hair is on fire or finding shelter under a rock are words. Good faith words have moved me to a deeper sense of human being...