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Turning Point USA sponsored an alternative halftime entertainment during the Super Bowl. One of the featured acts performed a country song lamenting how small-town values and the “all-American virtues” they supposedly embody are disrespected by urban America and the elites presumed to look down on rural people. It is a theme that resonates deeply within… Read more

Christians begin their annual six-week season of preparation for Easter on Wednesday, February 18, Ash Wednesday. It is a time for self-examination and reflection on following Jesus in the way of his commandment: to love one another as he has loved us, and to be agents of godly justice who confront every form of oppression… Read more

News and social media are filled with commentary about Christians, Christianity, and what it all stands for. Particularly notorious are certain self-described conservative Evangelical movements claiming to be Christian nationalists, aligned more or less with the current administration and its MAGA core supporters. They seem able to attract large crowds of adherents while giving Christianity… Read more

Politics has become a dirty word. “It’s all politics” is often declared as though the phrase itself explains—and excuses—something ethically deplorable. To say “it’s just politics” is to trivialize what is happening,  dismissing it as something relatively useless when compared with real people doing real work. To politicize an issue is commonly understood as turning… Read more

Our city remains far too icy to risk a walk. I suspect my Tuesday morning class will be canceled, so I am going to cover one small part of it in this post. We would have studied the Beatitudes as presented in Matthew, chapter 5, but today I want to focus on just one: “Blessed… Read more

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote The Cost of Discipleship in 1937, at a time when much of the German church had embraced a form of Christian nationalism compatible with Hitler’s vision for Germany’s future. In that book, Bonhoeffer reminded his students that they could not pledge allegiance to German nationalism and to the gospel of Jesus Christ… Read more